Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

screen door on a submarine

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: screen -door on a -sub-ma-rine
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something that is useless or absurd.

Example Sentences

"But realists put the final number of jobs saved through privatisation at no more than 800. "It's about as useful to us as a screen door on a submarine," says an angry mayor's office in Sacramento ."
"I doubt anybody would give you static about unloaded and stored long guns anywhere in U.S. waters, and few places would about handguns (although unloaded guns are as useful as a screen door on a submarine).”"
"If you don't know what security vulnerabilities look like at the code level, then having the source code is just as useful as a screen door on a submarine from a security perspective."

Etymology

A screen door on a submarine would be absurd as it would allow the vessel to fill with water.

Inflected Forms

screen doors on a submarine (plural) screen doors on submarines (plural)

Questions

What does screen door on a submarine mean?: Something that is useless or absurd.
Where does screen door on a submarine come from?: A screen door on a submarine would be absurd as it would allow the vessel to fill with water.

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