sad sack
Meaning
- (US) An incompetent or inept person.
- (US) A perennial failure or victim of misfortune.
Synonyms
Translations
fagotista destraler
Fagott
φαγκότο
basson
fagottoEtymology
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.
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