Poor relation
noun
1.
a person or thing considered inferior to another or others: plastic is a poor relation of real leather
An inferior member of a group, as in Many regard Turkey as the poor relation in the European alliance. This expression, first recorded in 1720 for a family member in humble circumstances, began to be used figuratively in the mid-1900s.
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