Get the shitty end of the stick


verb phrase

(Variations: crappy, cruddy, dirty, little, mucky, rough, shit, shitten, short, thick, or wrong may replace shitty) To be badly and unfairly treated; have the worst of an arrangement or of luck: Pastorini got the shit end of the stick, as usual (entry form 1846+, others later)

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