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Bump Log Sit Move Piano Inactive Responding Mark

Idiom Like a Bump on a Log
Example Don't just sit there like a bump on a log. Help me move this piano.
Meaning inactive and not responding
Origin Mark Twain, the author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, among other great books, used this simile (a comparison often using "like" or "as") in 1863. A bump on a log is an immovable lump of wood. In this idiom it represents a fixed, motionless person.

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