| 释义 |
a sack of potatoes informal Used in similes to refer to clumsiness, inertness, or unceremonious treatment of the person or thing in question: he drags me in like a sack of potatoes...- He ended up half-carrying, half-dragging me to his car, where he dumped me unceremoniously like a sack of potatoes.
- After another hour or two of shop talk I was positively exhausted and dropped into bed like a sack of potatoes, only to wake up before 4 am, unable to sleep.
- You struck Mr Ryan three vicious blows to his stomach, causing him to collapse like a sack of potatoes into the gutter.
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