| 释义 |
a broken reedA weak or ineffectual person: the superintendent of this building appears to be a broken reed...- It would only take one more attack on the US homeland for the President to become a scapegoat and his Office of Homeland Security a broken reed.
- Because of all the changes it is obviously difficult to test the validity of these claims, but some of Wheelock's main supports are broken reeds to lean on.
- By contrast, the Irish army that the king mobilized to support his cause turned out to be a broken reed.
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