12 Metaphors for weak

Weak is the general word for that which is deficient in strength.

Weak was the queen, and rebelled: but

The weak and dependent are ever the majority, and if Christianity had been intended to pass them by or sift them out, "its province were not large," nor could it claim to be the religion of humanity.

A cloud, who mocked his grateful tongue, The day with sudden darkness hung; 20 With pride and envy swelled, aloud A voice thus thundered from the cloud: 'Weak is this gaudy god of thine, Whom I at will forbid to shine.

"Resist his first assault; Weak is his bow, his quenched brand is cold; Cupid is but a child, and cannot daunt The mind that bears him, or his virtues bold.

To begin with the smallest hand was three of a kind; and after the draw the weakest was a straight.

We have neither room nor inclination to extract a scene, but one of the metrical pieces has tempted us: Sweet shone the sun on the fair Lake of Toro, Weak were the whispers that waved the dark wood, As a fair maiden bewilder'd in sorrow, Sigh'd to the breezes and wept to the flood.

or, 'The weakest of the two;' but the former is the regular mode of expression, because there are only two things compared.

Close by each other laid, they press'd the ground, Their manly bosoms pierced with many a grisly wound; 150 Nor well alive, nor wholly dead they were, But some faint signs of feeble life appear: The wandering breath was on the wing to part, Weak was the pulse, and hardly heaved the heart.

The assault of Cuenca, the sole victory of the campaign, made a deep impression on Gabriel's memory; the troops of men wearing the scarf, after they had knocked down the ramparts as weak as mud walls, rushed like overflowing streams through the streets.

It was little and frail, and as weak as threads of cotton.

Jack will try to break off with her now, of course; but Jack, where women are concerned, is as weak as water.

12 Metaphors for  weak