dirty end of the stick

"I want to see that they are kept, because all too often our community has gotten the dirty end of the stick."

She's the one that got the dirty end of the stick."

So don't you dare start talking like you've given me the dirty end of the stick these last fifteen years.

Dirty end of the stick all the way.

With such a strategy, it is inevitable that resellers will be left holding the dirty end of the stick.

For as long as his family had lived in these parts, they'd had to make do with the dirty end of the stick.

You always get the dirty end of the stick, McKinnon.

But I would say that it was the Italian presidency's turn in this case to 'get the dirty end of the stick' .

Then you had better dig out of your mind the notion that he has been handing you the dirty end of the stick all these years.

Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick.

This Hittite king, Muwatallis by name, was handed the dirty end of the stick by an old master of the big lie.

"But if Stanton is the killer, then the D.A. gets the dirty end of the stick, the cops get the credit for catching him, the bill goes through the state legislature raising the pay of the police, the noose hangs high, and it's a happy ending."