scrape the barrel

(informal)

to use something or someone that you do not want to use because nothing or no one else is available (usually in continuous tenses) You know you're really scraping the barrel when you have to ask your old mother to come to the cinema with you.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jorie	JAWR-ee	English
Evron	-	Yiddish
Mehmood	-	Urdu
Ignacio	eeg-NAH-thyo (Spanish), eeg-NAH-syo (Latin American Spanish)	Spanish
Annegret	AH-ne-gret	German
Pridon	-	Georgian