crumbs from the rich man's table
crumbs from the rich man's table an unfair and inadequate or unsatisfactory share of something. The allusion is biblical, from the story of the beggar Lazarus ‘desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table’ (Luke 16:21).
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