small potatoes (?.)
- Middle America
- a nobody
- a nothing
- bourgeoisie
- burgherdom
- cipher
- common man
- dummy
- figurehead
- fourth-rater
- insignificancy
- jackstraw
- lightweight
- little fellow
- little guy
- man of straw
- mediocrity
- middle class
- middle order
- middle orders
- minutiae
- nebbish
- no prize
- nobody one knows
- nobody special
- nonentity
- nothing special
- obscurity
- pip-squeak
- punk
- runt
- scrub
- second-rater
- shrimp
- silent majority
- small beer
- small change
- small fry
- small potato
- squirt
- squit
- suburbia
- third-rater
- tinhorn
- triviality
- whiffet
- whippersnapper
