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red-headed stepchild
noun[ C ]
US(alsoredheaded stepchild, red-headed step-child)uk /redˌhed.ɪd ˈstep.tʃaɪld/ us /ˌred.hed.ɪd ˈstep.tʃaɪld/
someone or something that is not fully accepted or wanted:
Wheat has long been the red-headed stepchild of Midwestern crops.
Presidential speechwriters were once the redheaded stepchildren, kept hidden in case they spoiled the charade that the president wrote his own speeches.
Horror films are the red-headed stepchild of the movie world and a lot of people think of them as an unimportant side project.
Liberty Lake is for the rich people on the other side of the river. We are the redheaded stepchildren.
It surprises me that this product is being given the red-headed step-child treatment.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abjure
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
oppositional
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom
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