Serve as a guinea pig



Serve as a guinea pig

Fig. [for someone] to be experimented on; to allow some sort of test to be performed on one. (Alludes to the use of guinea pigs for biological experiments.) Try it on someone else! I don't want to serve as a guinea pig! Jane agreed to serve as a guinea pig. She'll be the one to try out the new flavor of ice cream.
See also: guinea, pig, serve

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Rebeccarə-BEK-ə (English), re-BEK-kah (Italian)English, Italian, Swedish, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Seong-Hyeonsung-hyunKorean
Samia-Arabic
Noboruno-bo-ṙooJapanese
BÁRbara-Portuguese, Spanish
Junior['dʒu:njə]