| 单词 | sad sack |
| 释义 | sad sackSEE SYNONYMS FOR sad sack ON THESAURUS.COM noun Slang.a pathetically inept person, especially a soldier, who continually blunders in spite of good intentions. Origin of sad sackAfter the cartoon character created in 1942 by U.S. cartoonist George Baker (1915–75) OTHER WORDS FROM sad sacksad-sack, adjectiveWords nearby sad sackSadoc, sadomasochism, Sadová, Sadowa, SADS, sad sack, sad tree, SAE, Saehrimnir, Saemisch's operation, Saemisch's section Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for sad sack
British Dictionary definitions for sad sacksad sack nounUS slang an inept person who makes mistakes despite good intentions Word Origin for sad sackC20: from a cartoon character created by G. Baker, US cartoonist Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with sad sacksad sack A singularly inept person, as in Poor George is a hopeless sad sack. This term alludes to a cartoon character, Sad Sack, invented by George Baker in 1942 and representing a soldier in ill-fitting uniform who failed at whatever he tried to do. It was soon transferred to clumsily inept civilians. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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