serve as a guinea pig

serve as a guinea pig
serve as a guinea pig
Fig. [for someone] to be experimented on; to allow some sort of test to be performed on one. (Alludes to the use of guinea pigs for biological experiments.) •

Try it on someone else! I don't want to serve as a guinea pig!

Jane agreed to serve as a guinea pig. She'll be the one to try out the new flavor of ice cream.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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