Talk:sad sack
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"(informal) An incompetent or inept person. Originally a well-meaning but inept soldier. From "You're a sad sack of shit." Chambers has only the second sense. Equinox ◑ 18:50, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
- The sense is what MWOnline shows. Partridge and Cassell's show "sad sack of shit" as being the full form. Cartoonist Sgt. George Baker copyrighted the name in 1943 which he said he took from a "longer phrase, of a derogatory nature". He used the phrase to name a cartoon character in a cartoon strip that was popular from its first publication in May 1942(?) in Yank, a US Army weekly magazine. DCDuring TALK * Holiday Greetings! 22:51, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
- The tag was removed some time ago. I have struck this as resolved. — Beobach 00:35, 3 December 2010 (UTC)