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a dead weight 1. if someone is a dead weight, they are very heavy and difficult to carry, often because they are not conscious. Tom was a dead weight and her muscles ached as she carried him upstairs. 2. something or someone who prevents other people from making progress. We must free ourselves from the dead weight of history. She's just a dead weight on the business at the moment. |
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As he was thus speaking, he had risen from bed with great difficulty, holding to my shoulder with a grip that almost made me cry out, and moving his legs like so much dead weight. Marian had been like a sack of meal, a dead weight of plumpness under which he has literally staggered. Before I could stoop for it there was a dead weight on my left arm, and Squire Rattray was over the table at a bound, with his arms jostling mine beneath Eva Denison's senseless form. |
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