Idiom
waste of space
Meaning
An utterly worthless person; one who, as it were, is unworthy of the space which they occupy.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“That broken chair is just a waste of space.”
“He never helps with the project and is just a waste of space in our group.”
“The critic dismissed the entire collection as a waste of space, arguing that the works lacked both substance and artistic merit.”
Examples
simple
“That broken chair is just a waste of space.”
contextual
“He never helps with the project and is just a waste of space in our group.”
complex
“The critic dismissed the entire collection as a waste of space, arguing that the works lacked both substance and artistic merit.”
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