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Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis
Brian Westbrook could take screens to the house and back again. Keiland is not that capable.
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poor man's [something or someone], (the or a)
A less famous, less expensive, smaller or
less satisfactory version of something or someone. The term does not necessarily imply inferiority, though it often does.
1924: "Another nickname for the town [St. Petersburg, Fla.] is the Poor Man's Palm Beach." R. Lardner in _The American Twenties_, 40f.