英语单词“scrape the bottom of the barrel”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析
单词
scrape the bottom of the barrel
释义
scrape the bottom of the barrel
idiominformal(UKalsoscrape the barrel)to use theworstpeopleor things because that is all that isavailable:(因别无选择)将就,凑合用Richard's in theteam? You really arescrapingthebottomof thebarrel!理查德进队了?你真是没人可用了!SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesLacking things- bankrupt
- bankruptcy
- be hard up (forsomething)idiom
- bereft
- catch
- cry out forsomething
- demand
- hole
- lack
- lacking
- minus
- need
- needsomethinglike you need a hole in the headidiom
- needful
- shy
- taken
- unaccompanied
- unappeased
- unassuaged
- unmet
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