Sentence examples for wet noodle from inspiring English sources

The phrase "wet noodle" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written and spoken English.
It is often used as an idiom to describe someone or something that is weak, lackluster, or ineffective. Example: "The team's performance was like a wet noodle during the playoffs. They lacked energy and drive."

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It is more like a wet noodle.

She was like a wet noodle, just hung down straight".

"Handles like an overboiled wet noodle," Ms. Krebs said.

It just stays completely placid and gets pushed along by the hips like a wet noodle".

(A friend refers to Daschle, somewhat uncharitably, but not inaccurately, as "a wet noodle").

He developed an unsightly pimply condition around his armpits and had the muscle tone of a wet noodle.

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At the end, we looked and felt like wet noodles.

Lots of these bands slowed down and caught the wet noodles, until they found machines and sped up again.

"I often say two wet noodles can't hold each other up, but John and Elizabeth were really able to grieve very personally and yet together," Ms. Winstead said.

At Kimuru's Saimin Restaurant in Haiku, we placed our lunch order at the window, then waited impatiently at long wooden picnic tables as the delicious smell of grilled "wet noodles" and char sui filled the room.

Two triplet panels of figured stained glass survive on the front and side walls, but a leaded glass panel near the front door has been smashed, the lead cames hanging down like wet noodles.

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