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Like a Bump on a Log inactive and not responding

Accepted Answer

Don't just sit there like a bump on a log. Help me move this piano. 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.

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.

Bump Log Sit Move Piano Inactive Responding Mark