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sad sack of shit
noun
a miserable and depressing individual US, 1978
Abbreviates as SAD SACKWhat a theatrical bastard he was, abusing that poor little sad sack of shit until he didn’t know whether he was coming or going. — James Garrett, And Save Them For Pallbearers, p. 104, 1958 They’ve got nothing to do but go fishing, play poker, drink bonded bourbon, and wait for some sad sack of shit like you to show up in the courtroom[.] — Stephen King, The Stand, p. 191, 1978 The cartoon character Sad Sack of course derives his name from the NCO’s favorite term for a despised subordinate, a sad sack of shit, a bit of nomenclature reducing the addressee to a bag of noisome matter equipped, as if by some accident, with arms and legs. — Paul Fussell, Wartime, p. 91, 1989 |