dead weight

Examples (10)

• With difficulty she managed to pull his dead weight onto the bed.
• The unconscious patient was a dead weight for the paramedics to lift.
• Removing the old engine, which was nothing but dead weight, required several strong men.
• His constant negativity became a dead weight on the morale of the entire project team.
• The company realized that some departments had become dead weight and needed restructuring.
• Trying to carry the injured hiker, whose legs were like dead weight, was a monumental task.
• The broken-down car was a dead weight that had to be towed from the road.
• She felt like a dead weight to her friends, always needing help and never contributing.
• The heavy, waterlogged carpet was a sheer dead weight to pull out of the flooded basement.
• To improve efficiency, they decided to eliminate all dead weight from the organizational structure.