dead weight
Speech parts
1. dead weight - Noun
2. dead weight - Adverb
Meaning
a heavy motionless weight
an oppressive encumbrance
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Examples
Today, two big mountains lie like a dead weight on the Chinese people. One is imperialism, the other is feudalism.
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.
The middle of the episode sags, for instance, under the dead weight of Sherman showing his feces-and-semen portraits to a "fine art consultant" at the Coast Gallery named Christy.
The standard instrument for each test device varies accordingly, e.g., a dead weight tester for pressure gauge calibration and a dry block temperature tester for temperature gauge calibration.
Carbon has comparatively few of the protons and neutrons which contribute most of the dead weight of any material.