dead weight
Example Sentences
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Misguided, opinionated labor is dead weight; the high-up leaders know best, which is why they’ve earned the positions they have to begin with.
From Slate • Sep. 14, 2023
“I thought I was dead weight / But you wanna carry me / You wanna carry me home,” she sings on the track, gritty guitar sounds behind her.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2023
“I’m trying to understand how a person’s dead weight can be on your body and how his head can be suspended above your head?”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 26, 2023
Perpetual litigation also creates significant "dead weight" in attorneys' fees and court costs, Katyal said.
From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2022
A hundred miles on a wilderness river with a raft, hauling a grown man who would be nothing but dead weight, was impossible.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
