Idiom
sick man
Meaning
A weak member of a peer group, especially the weakest.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is the sick man of the team.”
“The company struggled to recover because its largest department had become the sick man of the organization.”
“Once a dominant force in the global market, the industry is now widely regarded as the sick man of the national economy.”
Examples
simple
“He is the sick man of the team.”
contextual
“The company struggled to recover because its largest department had become the sick man of the organization.”
complex
“Once a dominant force in the global market, the industry is now widely regarded as the sick man of the national economy.”
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