Meaning of THE SCUM OF THE EARTH - A Really Short English Lesson with Subtitles

READ ALONG TO PRACTICE YOUR ENGLISH AND TO LEARN THE MEANING OF THE SCUM OF THE EARTH: So “scum“ is something that you find floating on the top of the water in a pond or maybe in a lake, and it’s usually a gross, disgusting mixture of decaying leaves and other things, and we call it scum, but we also have a phrase to refer to people where we say that they are the scum of the earth. If you were to call someone the scum of the earth it’s a pretty heavy duty insult. We usually reserve this phrase for criminals