scrape the bottom of the barrel
scrape the bottom of the bucket , auch: scrape the barrel BrE

Now they are scraping the bottom of the barrel again.

She must really be scraping the bottom of the barrel.

But clearly, after scraping the bottom of the barrel for 18 months, the industry is on the way up.

"We're really scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get people to join."

I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel for solutions to our problem."

Although we do not like to admit it, America seems addicted to scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Bradley explained: "Whether we have anything left by the time they start scraping the bottom of the barrel."

I scraped the bottom of the barrel and brought up riches."

People really try to scrape the bottom of the barrel to make golf controversial."

"It shows how little progress you've made, scraping the bottom of the barrel like this.

"Scraping the bottom of the barrel for a last-ditch attempt."

Good grief, you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, aren't you?

Another called the prosecutors immoral, desperate and "scraping the bottom of the barrel."

A little bird told me they're already scraping the bottom of the barrel for equipment and spares.

Not surprisingly the guys in the logo department at the election commission have been scraping the bottom of the barrel a bit.

He's really scraping the bottom of the barrel if you're the best he can recruit for his nasty little army."

If we've drained the aurora of its light, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

The sound you hear is that of publishers scraping the bottom of the barrel for new ones."

"Well, we'd be scraping the bottom of the barrel at Wright-Patterson."

Mounting an assault on New Jerusalem called for scraping the bottom of the barrel.

He could show everybody how dreadful things were, they said, because we were scraping the bottom of the barrel.'

It just doesn't seem that she's had to scrape the bottom of the barrel like the rest of us to get where she is."

"They scraped the bottom of the barrel.

Although a primitive recording programme was in progress, the company evidently had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for material.

Wilder even recalls "scraping the bottom of the barrel" and approaching George Raft.