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"dead wood" is a valid phrase in written English.
It is used in the same way as "excess baggage" and can be used when you want to describe something that is no longer useful. For example, "After making the necessary cuts, the company was left with only essential resources and no dead wood."
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dead wood
noun
Personnel no longer contributing to an organization.
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Dead wood?
I'm dead wood".
"It's great on dead wood.
My legs were dead wood.
"Detail in the novel is dead wood.
They are the proverbial dead wood.
There's a bit of dead wood.
It looks like dead wood, literally.
After cutting away dead wood, average labour productivity rises.
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Trees Clear Own Dead Wood Q.
In the living forest trees/dead wood.
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