come/be a poor second, third, etc.
to be considered much lower in value, quality, or importance than the one, two, etc. other things or people mentioned:
For Jackie, I'm afraid, money is always of first importance and the children come a poor second.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not of good quality
- a miserable, poor, etc. excuse for sth idiom
- apology
- atrocious
- awful
- badly
- be an apology for sth idiom
- clunky
- crappy
- downmarket
- downscale
- inadequate
- motley
- mouldy
- not set the world on fire idiom
- of sorts idiom
- tacky
- unattractive
- unimpressed
- weak sauce
- worst
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