Meaning of bottom-shelf | Babel Free

Definitions

Cheap or low-quality.

informal, not-comparable

Examples

“a bottle of bottom-shelf wine”

“Ryder had a soft spot for off-brand soda, since that was what they'd had often when he was in charge, and they were living off a shoestring. Nothing wrong with bottom-shelf cereal and grape soda; not in his opinion.”

“2019, Todd Wagner: 30-Minute Overview of Come and See Instead of trusting that God's plan for us is what we desire, we try to find fulfillment in the "bottom-shelf candy" of compromise or isolation that seems right to us.”

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