dead weight

See also: deadweight

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Noun

dead weight (countable and uncountable, plural dead weights)

Unremitting heavy weight that does not move
(idiomatic) that which is useless or excess; that which slows something down
She wants to shed the dead weight of so many stacks of old clutter.
- 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:
  Nobody could ever be bothered to imagine the Sand Snakes beyond personalized weaponry and fake-aggressive quips, none of which were very convincing, and now they don’t even register as dead weight.

Translations

dead weight — See also translations at deadweight

Danish: dødvægt c
French: poids mort (fr) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dødvekt m or f, daudvekt m or f

Nynorsk: dødvekt f, daudvekt f

Serbo-Croatian: balast (sh) m, mrtav teret m

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Russian: балла́ст (ru) m (ballást)

Adverb

dead weight

(of a shot in snooker or other cue sports) With just enough weight for a ball to drop into a pocket, or come to rest in a precisely determined position.
He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue.

References

“dead weight” (US) / “dead weight” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

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