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Dead weight   /dɛd weɪt/   Listen
Dead weight

noun
1.
An oppressive encumbrance.
2.
A heavy motionless weight.





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"Dead weight" Quotes from Famous Books



... it seemed a leviathan dead weight in the path of traffic. If it could not move of itself, the only way for traffic to pass was to build a road around it. Then there was a rumbling noise within its body which sounded like some unnatural ...
— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... I suppose, Master Shirley," said Pat, striving to be facetious; "but please yourself, you are a dear, good young gentleman, and must have your own way;" and, unable to keep his legs any longer, Lary sunk down, a dead weight, into his seat. ...
— The Little Quaker - or, the Triumph of Virtue. A Tale for the Instruction of Youth • Susan Moodie
... can only get some dead weight over the frigate's side, it will lessen her way you see, and the wind may lull enough before morning to give the little craft ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 • Various
... fell from the Earl's hand, and dropped a dead weight on the rushes at his feet. He was a heart-wrecked man, and life had to ...
— A Forgotten Hero - Not for Him • Emily Sarah Holt
... he must get up presently and go down to the office. Presently—when he could open his eyes. Just now there was a dead weight on them; he tried one after another in vain. The effort set him weakly trembling, and he wanted to cry again. Nonsense! He must get ...
— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton


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