bad lot

“I think my mother thought I would fall in with a bad lot,” Spencer said.

As it stands, the 6-7 Bucs are the best of a bad lot.

"However, this option is the best of a bad lot."

As a result, the country that was once seen as the best of a bad lot is now paying the highest premium to borrow on the bond market after Greece - a country that defaulted twice in the past decade and is still rated 'junk'.

His real name was Ralph Fariss, and he’d been a bad lot since he was a teenager sent to reform school.