Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Chronicle Small Beer

(To). To note down events of no importance whatsoever.

He was a wight, if ever such wight were ...
To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

Shakespeare: Othello, ii. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Chronicon ox Chronicis
Christopher
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