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Definition of weak sister in English: weak sisternoun North American informal A weak, ineffectual, or unreliable member of a group. 〈美，非正式〉（一组人中的）弱者；无用的人；靠不住的人 Birdsell was a weak sister. He was known to be greedy and a physical coward Example sentencesExamples - Yet most stations willing to sell time in such blocks are A radio's weak sisters - suburban stations with poor signals and awful ratings, where listeners and sponsors rarely go.
- This cannot erase his record as a weak sister during the Cold War.
- Unfortunately, multiculturalism is wrongly seen as the weak sister by many academicians, Padilla said.
- When you have four major championships played during the course of a year, one of them has to rate as the weak sister of the bunch.
- Since its creation a decade ago, the European Medicines Agency has played the weak sister to its older, more powerful, and better-funded, counterpart, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
- As Tropical Depression 11 turned into Hurricane Jeanne, it is a weak sister by comparison to everything else that went by the Bahamas this hurricane season.
- San Diego has outscored Kansas City and Denver and completely slammed the door on weak sisters like Cleveland.
- But anyone who pities herself for more than a month on end is a weak sister and likely to become a public nuisance besides.
- Golf is the only game where the weak are propped up and the strong penalized - which, of course, is why so many people play it, there being a lot more weak sisters around than top dogs.
- If anything, he was inclined to dismiss monetary policy as the weak sister of economic stimulus.
Definition of weak sister in US English: weak sisternoun North American informal A weak, ineffectual, or unreliable member of a group. 〈美，非正式〉（一组人中的）弱者；无用的人；靠不住的人 Birdsell was a weak sister. He was known to be greedy and a physical coward Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, multiculturalism is wrongly seen as the weak sister by many academicians, Padilla said.
- Since its creation a decade ago, the European Medicines Agency has played the weak sister to its older, more powerful, and better-funded, counterpart, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
- But anyone who pities herself for more than a month on end is a weak sister and likely to become a public nuisance besides.
- This cannot erase his record as a weak sister during the Cold War.
- When you have four major championships played during the course of a year, one of them has to rate as the weak sister of the bunch.
- San Diego has outscored Kansas City and Denver and completely slammed the door on weak sisters like Cleveland.
- Golf is the only game where the weak are propped up and the strong penalized - which, of course, is why so many people play it, there being a lot more weak sisters around than top dogs.
- As Tropical Depression 11 turned into Hurricane Jeanne, it is a weak sister by comparison to everything else that went by the Bahamas this hurricane season.
- Yet most stations willing to sell time in such blocks are A radio's weak sisters - suburban stations with poor signals and awful ratings, where listeners and sponsors rarely go.
- If anything, he was inclined to dismiss monetary policy as the weak sister of economic stimulus.
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