sad sack

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

basson

boucher

Synonymes

blunderer

fumbler

bumbler

bungler

stumbler

butcher

fuckup

botcher

washout

duffer

fiddler

palooka

slouch

tinkerer

bassoon

Traductions

barroer

fagotista

potiner

destraler

Fagott

φαγκότο

fagotto

cialtrone

disordinato

incapace

pasticcione

scalzacane

schiappa

ciabattone

fagot

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.