little game—scheming in order to win personal gain, advantage, or profit:
- How long do you mean to carry on this little game?
small game—
1. a game in which the stakes are low:
- Some stuck to cards, and though no longer deep gamblers, rather played small game than sat out. 2. the smaller animals or birds hunted for food: There were few better areas than the country eighty miles round Delhi for small game.
See also: big game / large game.