Bottom Dog (Noun)
Meaning
A person of low status.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The new employee was treated as the bottom dog in the office hierarchy, always given the most menial tasks.
- As a rookie in the police department, he was considered the bottom dog and had to work the night shift.
- She felt like the bottom dog in her family, always being compared unfavorably to her high-achieving siblings.
- In the competitive world of finance, being the bottom dog meant struggling to make ends meet.
- The young intern was the bottom dog in the company, forced to do all the grunt work while the senior employees took the credit.