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dead wood |
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dead wood people in a group or organization who are not useful any more and who need to be removed. There's a lot of dead wood in the team which needs to be cleared out. |
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And, provided with a lentil, he lighted a fire of dead wood that crackled joyously. I had to keep guessing at the channel; I had to discern, mostly by inspiration, the signs of hidden banks; I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; I had to keep a look-out for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's steaming. The grass was high and thick, affording feed for her horse and a bed for herself, and there was more than enough dead wood lying about the trees to furnish a good fire well through the night. |
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