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poor relation
noun
- a person or thing considered inferior to another or others
plastic is a poor relation of real leather
Idioms and Phrases
An inferior member of a group, as in Many regard Turkey as the poor relation in the European alliance . This expression, first recorded in 1720 for a family member in humble circumstances, began to be used figuratively in the mid-1900s.Example Sentences
A spinster who was a poor relation was the only person of respectable breeding who ever came near them.
At most, she only looks upon him as a kind of poor relation that ought to put up with anything.
She had been the poor relation, the daughter of a dreaming failure.
Robert Moncton had been reconciled to his son, and I was once more regarded as only a poor relation.
I am rich, trust in me, and the world shall never sneer at you as a poor relation.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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