bottom of the barrel

The least desirable, the dregs, as in The nominating committee had trouble finding candidates; they were settling for the bottom of the barrel. The phrase often occurs in scrape the bottom of the barrel, meaning “to use the least desirable elements” (because one has no choice), as in Bringing up that minor legal point proves that you're scraping the bottom of the barrel. This metaphor for the sediment left by wine in a barrel was already used by Cicero to describe the lowest elements of Roman society. [First half of 1900s]

Words nearby bottom of the barrel

bottomless, bottomless pit, bottom line, bottom-liner, bottommost, bottom of the barrel, bottom of the ladder, bottom-of-the-line, bottom out, bottom quark, bottom round

单词	bottom of the barrel
释义	bottom of the barrel The least desirable, the dregs, as in The nominating committee had trouble finding candidates; they were settling for the bottom of the barrel. The phrase often occurs in scrape the bottom of the barrel, meaning “to use the least desirable elements” (because one has no choice), as in Bringing up that minor legal point proves that you're scraping the bottom of the barrel. This metaphor for the sediment left by wine in a barrel was already used by Cicero to describe the lowest elements of Roman society. [First half of 1900s] Words nearby bottom of the barrel bottomless, bottomless pit, bottom line, bottom-liner, bottommost, bottom of the barrel, bottom of the ladder, bottom-of-the-line, bottom out, bottom quark, bottom round The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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