Sad Sack (Noun)
Meaning
Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The new employee was a sad sack who kept spilling coffee on the conference room table during meetings.
- After three failed projects, the team started to view John as a sad sack who couldn't get anything right.
- The sad sack of a manager kept mismanaging the company's finances, leading to a major audit.
- Despite his best efforts, the sad sack of a chef kept burning the restaurant's signature dish.
- The IT department was fed up with the sad sack of a network administrator who kept causing system crashes.