貧びん乏ぼうくじを引ひく

expression, godan verb (-ku)

get the short end of the stick; draw the unlucky lot

Idiomatic expression meaning to end up with an undesirable or disadvantageous outcome, as if drawing a losing ticket in a lottery.

• また貧びん乏ぼうくじを引ひいて、面めん倒どうな仕し事ごとを押おし付つけられた。

  I drew the short straw again and got stuck with the troublesome work.

• 彼かれはいつも貧びん乏ぼうくじを引ひく役やく回まわりだ。

  He always ends up with the short end of the stick.