| 词汇 | scrape (the bottom of) the barrel |
| 释义 | scrape (the bottom of) the barrelscrape (the bottom of) the barrel informalUSE somethingACCEPT to have to use something even though it is not very good, because there is nothing better available 将就，凑合 It was clear that the party was scraping the barrel for competent politicians. 很明显，该政党正对能干的政治家降格以求。 Examples from the Corpus scrape (the bottom of) the barrel• At that time I thought we were scraping the barrel.• Has Hollywood scraped the barrel for bimbos?• Unions were bargaining for dental insurance, as if scraping the barrel to come up with new benefits. → scrape (the bottom of) the barrel at scrape1(2) |
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