dead weight

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dead weight

1. The weight of someone who is sleeping, unconscious, or intentionally limp, making them more difficult to move or carry than they would be otherwise. Jamie struggled with the dead weight of her sleeping 10-year-old son when she tried to carry him to bed.

2. A burden that holds someone or something else back or prevents progress; someone or something that when handled or associated with conveys only difficulty and not benefit. You've been dead weight this entire road trip. You've just sat there without driving or paying for gas or anything! All those empty containers are dead weight. We're going to have to jettison them if we want to have enough fuel to make it back.

See also: dead, weight

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

dead weight

A heavy or oppressive burden, as in That police record will be a dead weight on his career. This term alludes to the unrelieved weight of an inert mass. [Early 1700s]

See also: dead, weight

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

a dead weight

A dead weight is something that makes change or progress extremely difficult. We must reduce the dead weight of bureaucracy. The company is already struggling under the dead weight of $14 billion debt.

See also: dead, weight

Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

dead weight

An oppressive burden or heavy responsibility. The physical attributes of such a weight were noted early on, but the figurative use of the expression dates from the early eighteenth century. The English philosopher Lord Shaftesbury (the third Earl) wrote (1711), “Pedantry and Bigotry are millstones able to sink the best Book, which carries the least part of their dead weight.”

See also: dead, weight

The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer

See also:

a dead weight
gimpy
be out of (one's) face
gimp
out of (one's) face
out of (one's) skull
out of one’s skull
out of skull
out of your skull
Mickey Finn

References in periodicals archive

The National Beef Association says the price grids offered by individual companies show many abattoirs not only charge pounds 4-pounds 8 for handling OTM (over 30 month) cattle because of SRM (specified BSE risk material) removal requirements, but also deduct up to 50p per kg dead weight from the carcase price.

Unfairly low price paid to beef farmers says NBA; Farming

While "Dead Weight" received positive reviews and has been seen by more than 3 million French cinemagoers so far, making it a moderate success in Gallic box office terms, it is still too early to judge Langmann's talents as a producer.

Langmann signs on for risky projects. (Featured Player)

During the collaborative process they learned they had both been overweight as children, which, perhaps, accounts for all the references to dead weight and weight scales that tug at these drawings.

Drew Beattie and Daniel Davidson

Vale and the management of Lianyungang port in China's eastern Jiangsu province signed a cooperative agreement in July to pave the way for Vale's ultra-large Valemaxes which have a capacity of 400000 dead weight tons (dwt) to dock at the port and boost productivity of their operations.

BRAZILIAN MEGA ORE FREIGHTERS IN CHINESE WATERS

A design that utilizes laser-welded steel sections is said to have kept the dead weight of the robot low, enabling the load-bearing capacity to be raised.

Injection molding robots

The ships, from the high ice class (1A) and with a capacity of about 110,00 dead weight tonnes (dwt), are operated by Stena Bulk's Helsinki office, and employed in northern Europe.

-Concordia Maritime participates in Aframax tanker deals

The Children's Rights Alliance's Jillian van Turnhout added: "This Budget will prove itself to be a dead weight that will drag more and more families into darkness and despair, depriving our country of a brighter future that we so desperately need."

Children lose out as EUR16 taken from family allowance; CHILD BENEFIT

We were getting pounds 3/kilo dead weight and around pounds 1.50/kilo live weight.

THE LIVESTOCK FARMER; Farming

He said the company already placed order for two tankers from Jiangsu Eastern Shipyard for crude oil transport with a 85,000 long ton dead weight capacity valued at US$ 61.49 million.

Pertamina to buy tankers worth US$ 400 million

So time to get rid of your own dead weight - this man who is constantly putting you down and who is much too quick with his hands.

Problem Page: Heavy hubby slaps me in sex rows

Flies are on his face, his lips, his eyes but if I brush them away they will only come back He is dead weight in my arms Soon he will be dead What am I waiting for?

You say: Your Poem - Waiting (written at the time of famine and war in Ethiopia 1986 and still relevant today)

To be sure, some sectors of the federal work force are rife with inefficiency and dead weight. But it has more than its share of dedicated public servants.

Radio free D.C.: news, traffic, weather, whiny bureaucrats

While partnering is not a matter of lifting dead weight but of learning to coordinate with the trajectory of jumps, their placement, and thrust, the man must still expend the greater part of his strength in gently and securely placing his partner on the floor.

Weight lifting

This work, as the dust-jacket blurb that appears under the de rigueur photograph of Jong grinning like a lunatic notes, is the author's "first full-length work of nonfiction." It purports, as the author explains in her introduction, to be "an unconventional book--part memoir, part critical study, part biography, part exploration of sexual politics in our time." It is, as noted above, like most of Jong's full-length works of fiction, insofar as such merits as it does possess are ultimately squashed flat as a pancake by the dead weight of the author's self-enchantment.

The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller

词组	dead weight
释义	dead weight Related to dead weight: Dead weight loss dead weight 1. The weight of someone who is sleeping, unconscious, or intentionally limp, making them more difficult to move or carry than they would be otherwise. Jamie struggled with the dead weight of her sleeping 10-year-old son when she tried to carry him to bed. 2. A burden that holds someone or something else back or prevents progress; someone or something that when handled or associated with conveys only difficulty and not benefit. You've been dead weight this entire road trip. You've just sat there without driving or paying for gas or anything! All those empty containers are dead weight. We're going to have to jettison them if we want to have enough fuel to make it back. See also: dead, weight Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. dead weight A heavy or oppressive burden, as in That police record will be a dead weight on his career. This term alludes to the unrelieved weight of an inert mass. [Early 1700s] See also: dead, weight The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. a dead weight A dead weight is something that makes change or progress extremely difficult. We must reduce the dead weight of bureaucracy. The company is already struggling under the dead weight of $14 billion debt. See also: dead, weight Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. dead weight An oppressive burden or heavy responsibility. The physical attributes of such a weight were noted early on, but the figurative use of the expression dates from the early eighteenth century. The English philosopher Lord Shaftesbury (the third Earl) wrote (1711), “Pedantry and Bigotry are millstones able to sink the best Book, which carries the least part of their dead weight.” See also: dead, weight The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: a dead weight gimpy be out of (one's) face gimp out of (one's) face out of (one's) skull out of one’s skull out of skull out of your skull Mickey Finn References in periodicals archive The National Beef Association says the price grids offered by individual companies show many abattoirs not only charge pounds 4-pounds 8 for handling OTM (over 30 month) cattle because of SRM (specified BSE risk material) removal requirements, but also deduct up to 50p per kg dead weight from the carcase price. Unfairly low price paid to beef farmers says NBA; Farming While "Dead Weight" received positive reviews and has been seen by more than 3 million French cinemagoers so far, making it a moderate success in Gallic box office terms, it is still too early to judge Langmann's talents as a producer. Langmann signs on for risky projects. (Featured Player) During the collaborative process they learned they had both been overweight as children, which, perhaps, accounts for all the references to dead weight and weight scales that tug at these drawings. Drew Beattie and Daniel Davidson Vale and the management of Lianyungang port in China's eastern Jiangsu province signed a cooperative agreement in July to pave the way for Vale's ultra-large Valemaxes which have a capacity of 400000 dead weight tons (dwt) to dock at the port and boost productivity of their operations. BRAZILIAN MEGA ORE FREIGHTERS IN CHINESE WATERS A design that utilizes laser-welded steel sections is said to have kept the dead weight of the robot low, enabling the load-bearing capacity to be raised. Injection molding robots The ships, from the high ice class (1A) and with a capacity of about 110,00 dead weight tonnes (dwt), are operated by Stena Bulk's Helsinki office, and employed in northern Europe. -Concordia Maritime participates in Aframax tanker deals The Children's Rights Alliance's Jillian van Turnhout added: "This Budget will prove itself to be a dead weight that will drag more and more families into darkness and despair, depriving our country of a brighter future that we so desperately need." Children lose out as EUR16 taken from family allowance; CHILD BENEFIT We were getting pounds 3/kilo dead weight and around pounds 1.50/kilo live weight. THE LIVESTOCK FARMER; Farming He said the company already placed order for two tankers from Jiangsu Eastern Shipyard for crude oil transport with a 85,000 long ton dead weight capacity valued at US$ 61.49 million. Pertamina to buy tankers worth US$ 400 million So time to get rid of your own dead weight - this man who is constantly putting you down and who is much too quick with his hands. Problem Page: Heavy hubby slaps me in sex rows Flies are on his face, his lips, his eyes but if I brush them away they will only come back He is dead weight in my arms Soon he will be dead What am I waiting for? You say: Your Poem - Waiting (written at the time of famine and war in Ethiopia 1986 and still relevant today) To be sure, some sectors of the federal work force are rife with inefficiency and dead weight. But it has more than its share of dedicated public servants. Radio free D.C.: news, traffic, weather, whiny bureaucrats While partnering is not a matter of lifting dead weight but of learning to coordinate with the trajectory of jumps, their placement, and thrust, the man must still expend the greater part of his strength in gently and securely placing his partner on the floor. Weight lifting This work, as the dust-jacket blurb that appears under the de rigueur photograph of Jong grinning like a lunatic notes, is the author's "first full-length work of nonfiction." It purports, as the author explains in her introduction, to be "an unconventional book--part memoir, part critical study, part biography, part exploration of sexual politics in our time." It is, as noted above, like most of Jong's full-length works of fiction, insofar as such merits as it does possess are ultimately squashed flat as a pancake by the dead weight of the author's self-enchantment. The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller
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