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like a bump on a log
Idioms and Phrases
Unmoving, inactive, stupidly silent. For example, Harry just sat there like a bump on a log while everyone else joined in the fun . This simile presumably alludes to the immobility of such a protuberance. [ Colloquial ; mid-1800s]Example Sentences
Sheryl Lozano, 54, was a program participant鈥攊n part, she said, because 鈥淚 didn't want to lay in bed all day like a bump on a log. I wanted to get out and do something.鈥
鈥淏aker sat there in the Oval Office like a bump on a log,鈥 he recalled.
He never offers a suggestion for an outing and just sits like a bump on a log if we do anything as a group.
鈥淚 didn鈥檛 think that he would embrace the process there. I thought he would just sit there like a bump on a log till the time was up. . . . When I saw him . . . he was dramatically changed.鈥
But in 1981, with his two young daughters getting a bit older, he found himself watching 鈥淎BC鈥檚 Wide World of Sports鈥 and feeling, he said, like a bump on a log 鈥 that he never fully realized his athletic potential.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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