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1 scrape the bottom of the barrel
expr infmlThey must really have scraped the bottom of the barrel to dig him up — Они что, лучше никого не могли найти?!
If they gave him the job, they must have had to scrape the bottom of the barrel — Если уж они ему дали эту работу, значит, у них совсем плохо с людьми
The new dictionary of modern spoken language > scrape the bottom of the barrel
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