sad sack

Significat (Anglès)

1. (US) An incompetent or inept person.
2. (US) A perennial failure or victim of misfortune.

Conceptes

fagot

barroer

fagotista

potiner

destraler

Sinònims

blunderer

fumbler

bumbler

bungler

stumbler

butcher

fuckup

botcher

washout

duffer

fiddler

palooka

slouch

tinkerer

bassoon

Traduccions

φαγκότο

basson

boucher

fagotto

cialtrone

disordinato

incapace

pasticcione

scalzacane

schiappa

ciabattone

guastamestieri

guazzabuglione

impiastratore

Fagott

Etimologia (Anglès)

US 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.