way out of a paper bag

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1.
Globalinformalcolloquialpejorative
- Completely incapable or inept at a particular skill; unable to perform even under very easy or constrained circumstances.
- Used to express that someone lacks the necessary ability, competence, or effectiveness in a given area.
2.
Globalinformalcolloquial
- A rhetorical negative construction employed to emphasize absence of skill or competence (e.g., 'couldn't X their way out of a paper bag').

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