1. dead weight - Noun
2. dead weight - Adverb
a heavy motionless weight
an oppressive encumbrance
Source: WordNetToday, two big mountains lie like a dead weight on the Chinese people. One is imperialism, the other is feudalism. Mao Zedong
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. Howard Mumford Jones
Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past. Michael Simkins
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
Carbon has comparatively few of the protons and neutrons which contribute most of the dead weight of any material. Source: Internet