be the best of a bad bunch
be the best of a bad bunch
To be slightly better or more desirable than anything or anyone else in a group, even though none of the available options are desirable. To be honest, none of the apartments we can afford looked very nice, but this place seems to be the best of a bad bunch. I don't care for Mary's new college friends. She's still the best of a bad bunch, but she's become a real troublemaker since meeting them.
See also: bad, bunch, of
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- be the best of a bad lot
- best of a bad bunch
- best of a bad lot
- the best of a bad bunch/lot
- do better to (do something)
- do better to do something
- things will work out
- all the same
- all/just the same
- get to (do something)