sad sack
Noun
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Noun
sad sack (plural sad sacks)
- (idiomatic, usually hyphenated when used attributively) An incompetent or inept person.
- 2007 June 3, Cara Buckley and William K. Rashbaum, "4 Men Accused of Plot to Blow Up Kennedy Airport Terminals and Fuel Lines ↗," New York Times (retrieved 5 April 2015):
- One law enforcement official played down Mr. Defreitas’s ability to carry out an attack, calling him “a sad sack” and “not a Grade A terrorist.”
- 2007 June 3, Cara Buckley and William K. Rashbaum, "4 Men Accused of Plot to Blow Up Kennedy Airport Terminals and Fuel Lines ↗," New York Times (retrieved 5 April 2015):
- (idiomatic, usually hyphenated when used attributively) A perennial failure or victim of misfortune; defeatist; loser.
- 2013 April 27, "Movie capsules: Arthur Newman ↗," Boston Globe (retrieved 5 April 2015):
- Weary of his drab life with its nowhere job, failed marriage, boring girlfriend, and estranged teenage son, a middle-aged sad sack fakes his death, changes his identity, and hits the road.
- 2014 March 29, Zach Schonfeld, "Film Review: Jason Schwartzman Is Charmingly Inept in 7 Chinese Brothers ↗," Newsweek (retrieved 5 April 2015):
- We meet him as he's on his way out, taking the news with equal parts tantrum and sad-sack acceptance.
- 2013 April 27, "Movie capsules: Arthur Newman ↗," Boston Globe (retrieved 5 April 2015):
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