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单词 be unable to punch one's way out of a paper bag
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be unable to punch one's way out of a paper bag

informal Be completely ineffectual or inept: I couldn’t punch my way out of a paper bag, but I’m a boxer at heart he couldn’t act his way out of a paper bag...
  • There were comic books featuring ‘The Purple Martin’ who was unable to punch his way out of a paper bag but was a super hero otherwise.
  • For someone who Johnny Rotten described as 'unable to punch his way out of a paper bag',...his rocket to ruin was spectacularly in the limelight.
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