In American slang, second-string players on a team are often called scrubs. Needless to say, they are not very good skill-wise - otherwise they'll have made the starting line-up.
The starting line-up, of course, consists of players who represent the team at the start of each game, players who get to play heavy minutes and play regularly. Second-string players or second-tier player or scrubs play sporadically, mostly as replacements, or substitutes or when one of the starters gets injured. Scrubs sit on the bench and they sit on the bench so much that they're sometimes called, fittingly, bench players.
All right, you get the point. Here are media examples of people being referred to as scrubs, a derogative term to be sure:
1. Nowadays we date with the same caution because there are scrubs out there who prey on everyday business women, who have everything in place except for their love life. Then comes the impostor partner, who is really the guy that ends up “crashing at your place for a few days,” trying to seduce his way into a live-in position. Employment, or lack thereof, is the focal point of most of the signs that your man is a scrub. Fellas, if you’re presently without work you may want to skip this read and surf the classifieds. But the rest of you scrubs don’t worry, we’ll try not to rip you too hard.
* He is in “transition.”
Sistas hate to hear that dreaded word, which translates to unemployed. If a man says he’s in “transition” then he has no job and more than likely can’t name a profession, skill or trade that he’s practiced for more than 3 years, consecutively. If he is an able body and free of felony convictions, he should be working, end of story.
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