"The small matter of" nghĩa là gì?

"The small matter of (something)" nghĩa là vấn đề nhỏ của một vấn đề lớn hơn (chưa hoàn thành/giải quyết).

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City are in the top six now. It's just the small matter of staying there for the next eight months...

With the foodservice industry grappling (vật lộn) with the fall-out of the coronavirus crisis, it can be easy to forget that there is also the small matter of the UK’s transition from the EU to think about.

He's posted this sort of thing before. IIRC he was given a platform (nền tảng) at the Women's March and in Teen Vogue despite non-consensually (không đồng tình) fisting a trans man (người chuyển giới). But apparently the small matter of violent sexual assault (tấn công tình dục) is no biggie.

This takes money, of course, and online income doesn’t come close to ticket revenue (doanh thu). And the timing of this pandemic coincides (trùng) with the arrival of another crucible (thử thách). In a couple of months, there’s the small matter of an election. The outcome will likely determine how ambitiously scaled our much-needed rebuilding phase will be.

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