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be a dead loss

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be a dead loss
1. if something or someone is a dead loss, they disappoint you because they are of bad quality or because they are not able to do what you want them to do. The meeting was a dead loss. We didn't come to a single decision. He may have been a great poet, but he was a dead loss as a husband.
2. to be very bad at a particular activity or subject. I was an absolute dead loss at sport when I was at school. (sometimes + at)
See also: dead, loss

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