dead weight

The text of the measure was unenforceable, but the dead words remained in the California Constitution, a dead weight on our collective conscience.

“Every single person who saw Joe Biden knew that he wasn’t capable of doing the job. And for three years, they said nothing until he became political dead weight.”

Now he had been deemed dead weight in Italy, too.

It felt like the old donkey had gone slack and left the entirety of his dead weight for me to drag.

That’s because when he was in contact with the rock his legs were worse than dead weight.