But the small-timer may not have the budget to do so.

The man was a small-timer in this new gold rush.

A small-timer among crooks, Homer had never encountered the man in black.

A small-timer, except he used his stolen rides to prowl for women.

Anyway, he started sellin' the stuff, and of course Jesse could not be content as a small-timer.

It's as if the small-timer was tricked into submission.

Hitherto, he has been a small-timer playing in the Off Broadway sandbox.

If you get a small-timer like Anita Marie, she can't deliver the real goods.

Carson is a small-timer along the beaches, does divorces, real estate, two-bit stuff.

The cops always want the big guys—Christ, if they busted everybody like this small-timer, they'd have to build twenty new jails.

No, a small-timer, a woman named Arnold.

If I get reassessed and theres a tax increase thats unanticipated, that could be a real hardship for a small-timer like me.

Tucker was a very smart small-timer, but still a small-timer at heart.

Wally was a small-timer who advertised quickie divorces on bus benches in the Bethesda area.

Invariably, the guilty man emerges as a pathetic, unpleasant misfit, a small-timer, often with a background of addiction and casual violence.

Ponzi, however, was a small-timer.

He's a nervous small-timer.

Benny's part was taken by "(Ragnar) Vanheden", a small-timer from Stockholm.

Somewhere… 'If he's smooth, he don't have to worry too much about the cops, because he's such a small-timer, and when they come around, he cooperates.

Every February he goes to Paris, where a Genessee small-timer gives him twenty thousand in cash, which he takes to Zurich.

I'm a small-timer compared to AEG and Live Nation and the big promoters, so I take it personally.

I figured you for a small-timer, Nubin, when I heard you had come down from the B and R to the Union Valley.

Bobbie is just a small-timer whose exploits pale before the promises held forth by Mr. Woods, in the role of a flamboyant, drug-dealing loose cannon named Mel.

The messenger with the goatee made a visible effort to control his amusement and said, "King Coyote is no small-timer sitting in a stall at the Cipherers' Market!"

Tamara (Irina Potapenko) works in a Viennese brothel and spends her spare time with her lover, Alex (Johannes Krisch), an underworld small-timer, more gofer than gangster.