¿Qué significa "underdog"?
Según algunos traductores, quiere decir víctima, desvalido, desamparado... pero a la hora de aplicar esa traducción a algunas frases de canciones, no me cuadra el significado. En Raise Your Glass de P!nk, por ejemplo, ella dice:
- So raise your glass if you're wrong in all the right ways all my underdogs we will never be anything but... etc.
Y en Underdog de You Me At Six dicen:
- Underdog, just look at the mess you made. It's such a shame.
Entonces, ¿vosotros qué decís que es underdog? ¿Y cuándo se debe usar? ¿Es que es algo informal, como el ain't?
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Underdog=el perdedor, tapado
The Longman Dictionary of Comtemporary English says about:
a person, team etc that is weaker than the others, is always expected to be unsuccessful, and that is often treated badly
For example:
Crowds often feel sympathy for the underdog .
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-Sentences from books, newspapers, etc.:
And the underdogs fully deserved their win over the Galway men.
As the underdog here, they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
But the vice-president is now the underdog in this race.
Did they make fun of him for speaking up for the underdog in school?
Pepsi has responded to this multi-pronged assault by playing the underdog card.
They like to believe they are underdogs.
Whether his party is a double winner ... or remains the underdog ... is in the hands of the voters.
Yes, they are the underdog.
una persona que se espera va a perder en un combate, concurso
I am betting all my money on the underdog, if it wins I'll be rich.
Estoy apostando todo mi dinero en el que no es preferido, si gana me haré rico.
una persona que no es apreciada socialmente
He is the underdog, that's why I support him, most support a known winner.
El es el desvalido, por eso lo apoyo, la mayoria apoyan a los ya ganadores.