draw the short straw

(informal)

to be the member of a group who has to do an unpleasant job Sorry, Jim, you drew the short straw. You're on toilet-cleaning duty.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aldous	['ɔ:ldəs]
Hajnal	HAWY-nawl	Hungarian
Ratna	-	Indian, Hindi, Telugu, Nepali, Indonesian
Yehoshua	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Inge	ING-e (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish), ING-gə (German), ING-ə (Dutch)	Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Dutch
Tadas	-	Lithuanian