| 单词 | can't punch one's way out of a paper bag |
| 释义 | can't punch one's way out of a paper bagBe inept, as in Ask him to program the VCR? He can't punch his way out of a paper bag. This hyperbolic term for extreme ineptitude originally was an expression of contempt for a weak or cowardly boxer. [Slang; c. 1910] Words nearby can't punch one's way out of a paper bagcantor, cantorial, cantoris, Cantor set, Cantor's paradox, can't punch one's way out of a paper bag, cantrip, can't see beyond the end of one's nose., can't seem to, can't see the forest for the trees, can't stand The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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