Trifling Ig Nobel award - extremely funny (2,3,4)
I believe the answer is:
no big deal
'trifling' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'ig nobel award extremely funny' is the wordplay.
'extremely' means to remove the middle letters (only the extremes of the word are used).
'funny' indicates an anagram.
'award' with its centre taken out is 'ad'.
'ig'+'nobel'+'ad'='ignobelad'
'ignobelad' with letters rearranged gives 'NO BIG DEAL'.
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