dead weight

It’s dead weight that doesn’t store energy or produce a current itself.

The Chinook vibrated with deeper and deeper groans until its twin engines managed to heave up our dead weight.

In contrast, if you have a 40-mile battery, for many shorter trips this investment is nothing but dead weight.

But he is dead wrong to suggest that government is simply redistributive or worse, a dead-weight drag on the economy.

We need to celebrate our gains and victories while we continue to put fire to the feet of dead weight.

She estimated it may take at least two years to clear out dead weight from the department and make the staff functional once more.

But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.

In the next few days they stowed some four thousand tons' dead weight into the Dimbula, and took her out from Liverpool.

The tackle, hooked on to the stern of the sunken yacht, was at first as so much dead weight on their hands.

But I tell you it was hard work getting him up, he was such a dead weight!

Each man gazed on the other, trying to find some word that might be fitting, but each muted by the dead weight of half a century.