the dirty end of the stick the difficult or unpleasant part of a task or situation. informal
☞ A less house-trained version of the idiom is the shitty end of the stick.
2000Sunday Times (Johannesburg) I still feel a bit sorry for Hugh, he always seems to get the dirty end of the stick.
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