To get stuck with the very last pick or settle for something of extremely low quality.
Joesaid he'd come to the big party with a bunch of hoes, but we knew he was really scraping the bottom of the barrel when he showed up holding a bunch of garden tools.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.