bottom dog

English

Noun

bottom dog (plural bottom dogs)

An underdog (someone at a disadvantage).
- 2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38:
  There was also a belief that they had been taken advantage of - "kicked from pillar to post, the bottom dogs in the labour market because of the inherent love of railmen for their jobs", according to one NUR member.
Antonym: top dog

References

“bottom dog”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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