can't punch one's way out of a paper bag

Be inept, as in Ask him to program the VCR? He can't punch his way out of a paper bag. This hyperbolic term for extreme ineptitude originally was an expression of contempt for a weak or cowardly boxer. [Slang; c. 1910]

See also: bag, of, out, paper, punch, way

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Seda	-	Turkish
Lilibet	-	English
Rina (4)	ṙee-nah	Japanese
Dragan	-	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Bulgarian
Phuntso	-	Bhutanese
Anita (2)	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil