poor show
(informal, dated, British) Used to express disapproval or dissatisfaction.
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(informal, dated, British) Used to express disapproval or dissatisfaction.
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(attributive, _, only) Worthy of pity.
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Expressing disdain.
- quite poor65%
In classic British understatement, quite poor doesn't mean mediocre — it means absolutely terrible. This is meiosis at its most English: the politer the language, the worse the thing being described. Quite poor is the phrase a British person uses when they'd rather die than say something was genuinely awful. Context and tone do all the heavy lifting.
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Expressing dismissal, contempt, impatience, etc.