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Bad Lot
(A). A person of bad moral character, or one
commercially unsound. Also a commercial project or stock of worthless
value. The allusion is to auctioneering slang, meaning a lot which no
one will bid for. So an inefficient soldier is called one of the
Queen's bad bargains.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Bad Lot from Infoplease:
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