Adrienne C. Moore

We think of our prison inmates as the dregs of society, and we scorn them and push them off to the side and forget about them. We have to remember that they are humans, and they have rights, and yes, they did wrong, but we all have one shot at doing wrong, you know?

American Actress

James Righton

There was a lack of inspiration in London. There were a lot of dregs of the Libertines' movement, and we didn't want to do that. We wanted big melodies and hooks, organic melodies that could fall apart at any moment.

English Musician

Jonathan Raymond

People get into debt head over heels because banks make it so easy to do so. Then the banks come along and act like these people who can't or won't pay their bills are the dregs of society.

American Writer

Rumi

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

Poet

T. S. Eliot

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.

American Poet

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

American Musician

Eric Hoffer

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

George MacDonald

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

Scottish Novelist

Damon Hill

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners.

British Athlete

Theo Van Gogh

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

Dutch Director

Using 'dregs' may imply strong disapproval or disdain for the described person or thing.

Negative Connotation

'Dregs' can be used metaphorically to describe the lowest quality or status within any group.

Metaphorical Use

When referring to people or abstract concepts, 'dregs' is not taken literally but understood as a figure of speech.

Not Literal

'Dregs' often refers to actual particles or residue at the bottom of a liquid.

Literal Substance

Commonly used with beverages, particularly wine, coffee, or tea, where sediment can be seen.

Common Beverages

The phrase 'drinking or eating the dregs' suggests consuming the less desirable remnants of something.

Consuming Leftovers

 that, based on my life's history as I portray it in the books, my early life's history, I am someone who has overcome adversity, that I am someone who has drunk -- drank? -- drunk of the bitter dregs of near-disaster in childhood

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 in the dregs of the sewer there and this is just how kids play in Gaza this is just how it is you know I know all your parents out there say huh because the rust the barbed wire it's just like that you know

Dregs

Negative Connotation

Metaphorical Use

Not Literal

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