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score a seat at one of the lower-tier tables by now

Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

score a seat at one of the lower-tier tables

English answer:

get a seat at one of the less popular tables

Added to glossary by Yvonne Gallagher
Sep 14, 2018 06:44
5 yrs ago
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English term

score a seat at one of the lower-tier tables

English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature Young Adult Novel
Two teenagers have a conversation at lunch, when a boy asked to join a girl who always sits and reads alone.

The girl told the him that she just transferred and said " Hence, my popularity. I probably could have scolded a seat at one of the lower-tier tables by now, but I'd rater let the people come to me.

Could anybody help me with this phrase? What kind of table she means here? I really have no idea.

Thank you all brilliant translators in advance
Responses
4 +3 get a seat at one of the less popular tables
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Discussion

JaneTranslates Sep 14, 2018:
Ironic and self-deprecating It's as if the girl were saying, "I'm sitting here all alone, so obviously, I'm very popular. I could have managed by now to be even less popular, but that would have required too much effort."
Stuart and Aida Nelson Sep 14, 2018:
score or scolded? Your question says 'score' but the girl says: ' I probably could have scolded a seat [...]'?

Responses

+3
2 hrs
Selected

get a seat at one of the less popular tables

score=get or take a seat
she's a new girl in the school so no one really knows her, hence she is not popular.

Some tables in the canteen would be taken up by the most popular boys/girls and they would be seen as "higher tier" tables as a lot of students would want to be "in the gang" and be sitting there.
Higher tier/lower-tier tables here seem to denote where the most and least popular students sit or the most and least coveted tables/seats

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Note added at 2 hrs (2018-09-14 08:54:45 GMT)
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high=top
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/top-tier

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Low tier
Peer comment(s):
agree Robert Forstag : The particular sense of "score" used in this way being "to secure something that is highly coveted" by whomever is speaking (e.g., score a couple of tickets to the Katy Perry concert; score a dime pack of coke, etc.). // Use here is as I have indicated.
5 hrs
Thanks Robert. Though this girl seems fairly self-confident, happy sitting on her own and letting people approach her rather than trying to get more popular
agree JaneTranslates : More context might help, but it appears to me that the girl is being ironic and self-deprecating. Otherwise she would have not used "scored" along with "lower-tier." (Continued in discussion--no space here.)
10 hrs
Many thanks:-)
agree janejira
11 days
Thanks:-)
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