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I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nighHad sought their household fires.
(I hadn't grasped how square and stolid the framing was until last night, when, while filming a concert by the pathetic dregs of a real '70s band, the camera tilted sardonically, just for an instant.)
Russia's military is a lumpen -army, the dregs of dregs.
). VandeHei's thesis is that these are such "desperate times" for House Republicans that they are sifting through the dregs, dragging in "desperation candidates" from the ranks of celebrities.
A term of opprobrium, the word came from the Southerners' perception that the newcomers represented the dregs of society, seeking nothing but easy political gain.