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rag doll
noun
- a stuffed doll, especially of cloth.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rag doll1
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Idioms and Phrases
A limp, ineffectual person, as in You won't get a decision from her; she's a rag doll when it comes to making up her mind . This expression transfers the limpness of a soft doll made from scraps of cloth to human behavior. [Mid-1800s]Discover More
Example Sentences
Then Ziegler tosses the buff LaBeouf around like a rag doll.
The woman who grasped Britain's unions by the neck and hurled them repeatedly against the wall, like some floppy rag doll.
Even one little girl, without so much as a rag doll, can have a play-house.
On her way she picked up her rag doll, Maria Jane, and the little toy automobile.
She remembered the little rag doll that Granny had made her when she was a very little girl.
For all that the Rag Doll didn't think he was coming just then.
He was engaged in taking from its wrappings a peculiarly hideous rag-doll.
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