An expression used to compare one person's problems to someone else's.

To make the listener realize he is lucky compared to others.
Your life's a shithole? Well your shithole's a puddle compared to the people starving in Africa every day while you sit at home and get beat by your husband. We both know who has things worse.
by Christopho: the G.I. Joe November 24, 2010
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