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
BonifaceBAWN-ə-fays (English), BAWN-ə-fəs (English)French, English (Rare)
WouterVOW-tər, WOW-tərDutch
Alexandria[ælig'za:ndriə]
Simion-Romanian
Maja (1)MIE-ah (German, Polish)Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish
AleŠ-Czech, Slovak, Slovene