sad sack
sad sack · sad sacks
переможений, невдаха, переможена
проигравший, потерявший, дрянь
Verlierer, Verliererin, Loser
An incompetent or inept personAn incompetent or inept person.
» I'd prefer to be called lugubrious rather than a sad sack.
mccarras · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(US)An incompetent or inept person.
(US)A perennial failure or victim of misfortune.
More definitions
- someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
Examples
1 sentencesI'd prefer to be called lugubrious rather than a sad sack.
Origin
US 1920s. Popularized by Sad Sack, a cartoon character and eponymous comic strip publishedUS 1920s. Popularized by Sad Sack, a cartoon character and eponymous comic strip published originally June 1942 in Yank, the Army Weekly, a US Army publication for soldiers, and later syndicated in the US 1940s and 1950s. Presumably from vulgar “sad sack of shit” as cartoonist Sgt. George Baker said he took it from a “longer phrase, of a derogatory nature”. The term originally referred to a well-meaning but inept soldier.
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