English-French translations for poor relation

• parent pauvre
  Nous savons que la culture est toujours le parent pauvre dans le budget. We know that culture is always the poor relation in budgetary terms.
  Depuis bien trop longtemps, le secteur ovin a été le parent pauvre. For far too long, the sheep sector has been the poor relation.
  La banane est-elle le parent pauvre de la production agricole de l' Union européenne ? Are bananas the poor relation of agricultural production in the European Union?

Definition of poor relation

• Something seen as inferior

Related words

• poor wretch
• poor area
• poor report
• poorly dressed
• meagre plain poor shabby
• Eared Poorwill
• poorer
• the pleasures of the mighty are the tears of the poor