Serve as a guinea pig
Serve as a guinea pig
Fig. [for someone] to be experimented on; to allow some sort of test to be performed on one. (Alludes to the use of guinea pigs for biological experiments.) Try it on someone else! I don't want to serve as a guinea pig! Jane agreed to serve as a guinea pig. She'll be the one to try out the new flavor of ice cream.
See also: guinea, pig, serve
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- dawn on (someone), to
- go to one's head, to
- (not) give a fig
- fig
- (not) care a fig
- give (one) the fig
- at the mercy of somebody/something
- palm off, to
- fall for something/someone, to
- keep an eye on, to