Which makes Margaret a second-rater compared with Nada, he added.

Underneath, however, we see the seething anger of the second-rater who alone feels capable of appreciating Mozart's prodigious gifts.

Carlson always was a second-rater.

Any second-rater can lick 'em.

Never sit to a second-rater, Mary, you've had the best now. And he covered the head again with a craftsman's thoroughness.

The second-raters who proved a lemma or read a draft somewhere along the way.

The smaller politics becomes, the riper it is for capture by ideologues and second-raters (and ideological second-raters).

"The French produce the best second-raters in the world."

"If we don't, we'll be second-raters forever."

Take away the current trot against Ricky Ponting's second-raters and Collingwood has 1,366 Test runs at 52.5 in Australia, Pakistan, India and South Africa.