英和和英

名詞

poor relation (plural poor relations)

1. Something neglected or seen as inferior.

   Synonym: red-headed stepchild

   • 1986, Joseph Beam, “Introduction”, in In The Life, page 17:

     Because of our homosexuality the Black community casts us as outsiders. We are the poor relations, the proverbial black sheep, without a history, a literature, a religion, or a community

   • 1999, Stephen Wilks, Great Britain. Monopolies, Mergers Commission, In the public interest:

     Competition policy was the poor relation of industrial policy. By the 1990s the position was reversed. Industrial policy was passe, competition policy was central to the economic policy debate.

   • 2007, Larry Devlin, Chief of station, Congo: a memoir of 1960-67, page 33:

     In the State Department, Africa was the poor relation, handled as a subsidiary of the Middle East Bureau.

   • 2024 April 3, Howard Johnston, “TfL is overflowing with ideas... but is short of the capital”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 31:

     The Bakerloo Line, the poor relation of the London Underground, has become a huge talking point in terms of both its immediate and medium-term future.