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n. (context figurative English) A person or thing of low quality or poor character.
Wikipedia
Bottom of the barrel may refer to:
- Bottom of the barrel, an English idiom originally referring to dregs, now meaning anything of low quality
- Bottoms of Barrels, a 2006 album by Tilly and the Wall
- The former title of Chris and Ciara, an Irish radio show
Usage examples of "bottom of the barrel".
One thing at least is certain, judging by the recruits they are now sending us, the bottom of the barrel will soon have been scraped, and so we can assume that the war will come to a halt.
In anguish, Kahlan gathered her fur mantle at her throat as she glanced back over her shoulder at the little girl using both her spindly arms to lift the heavy steel rod and drop it again to break the glass in the bottom of the barrel.
They're scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard they just might have tried to make me take command of an infantry division.
Clearly we have reached the bottom of the barrel, but I think you should give it a shot.
Kennelai were mainly used to run things in the absence of the Kessentai who actually owned them, but they were considered the bottom of the barrel in the Posleen hierarchy, in some ways lower than high quality oolt’.
Telescoping legs were pushing out of the bottom of the barrel, with feet that faced in both directions.