dead wood

释义

1. 累赘，没有贡献的人

   idiomatic · uncountable · 經管 · 公司等组织的

   Everybody knows that when you have a layoff, you use it as chance to get rid of the people you wanted to get rid of anyway, but couldn't document or hadn't bothered documenting as bad employees […]。If you don't have much dead wood, you hope they make you use a seniority list, because then you can say it's out of your control.

   2001, Michael B. Arthur, Denise M. Rousseau, The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 140:

2. 仅按字面意思，并无比喻或俗语义；参见dead、wood。