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scrape the barrel

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scrape the barrel (informal)
to use something or someone that you do not want to use because nothing or no one else is available. You know you're really scraping the barrel when you have to ask your old mother to come to the cinema with you. (usually in continuous tenses)
See also: barrel, scrape
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