Meaning of THE SCUM OF THE EARTH - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles
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So "scum" is something that you find floating
on the top of the water in a pond or maybe
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in a lake, and it's usually a gross, disgusting
mixture of decaying leaves and other things,
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and we call it scum, but we also have a phrase
to refer to people where we say that they
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are the scum of the earth.
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If you were to call someone the scum of the
earth it's a pretty heavy duty insult.
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We usually reserve this phrase for criminals,
people who steal, people who harm other people,
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people who have a life of crime we usually
refer to them as the scum of the earth.
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So maybe you know someone who is a car thief
and they just steal cars all the time.
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We might consider that person the scum of
the earth.
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