fold like a cheap suitcase
fold like a cheap suitcase
To offer little resistance; to submit easily. (A poorly-made suitcase would be prone to collapsing.) I think this team's defense will fold like a cheap suitcase if we just put a little more pressure on them.
See also: cheap, fold, like, suitcase
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
fold like a cheap suitcase
Collapse easily. Expensive luggage was made, as now, from well-constructed leather or fabric. Cheap ones used to be made of cardboard with little or no structural reinforcement, not very sturdy especially when manhandled by baggage handlers or hotel porters. A sports team with no defense or a poker player with a losing hand would both fold like a cheap suitcase. You'd also hear “fold like a cheap suit,” but since fabric folds easily, whether it's cashmere or polyester, “suitcase” presents a better connotation of a losing proposition.
See also: cheap, fold, like, suitcase
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
- suitcase
- think little of
- think little of (someone or something)
- financially embarrassed
- standing on (one's) head
- standing on one's head
- with (one's) eyes shut
- with eyes closed
- with your eyes shut
- with your eyes shut/closed