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单词 scrape the barrel (or the bottom of the barrel)
释义

scrape the barrel (or the bottom of the barrel)

informal Be reduced to using things or people of the poorest quality because there is nothing else available: the party was scraping the barrel for competent politicians...
  • The city doesn't have to scrape the barrel and show us up so much that we are reduced to selling the civic number plates.
  • So far we've relived all the favored decades of the 20th century and are now scraping the bottom of the barrel - we have finally made it to the 80s.
  • The senseless killing of several citizens in a cruel heartless manner is indicative of our little country scraping the bottom of the barrel of human kindness.
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