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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Trifling

Trifling as hobby-horses.
—Joseph Addison

Empty and trifling, like little dogs biting one another, and little children quarreling, laughing, and straightway weeping.
—Marcus Aurelius