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noun Informal.

a vacillating person; coward.

a part or element that undermines the whole of something; a weak link.

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Origin of weak sister

First recorded in 1855–60

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They even released a (pretty damn weak) hip-hop song on SoundCloud recounting their antics.
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Just a week after her divorce, she was invited to a wedding by her sister-in-law.
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Kirke, the 23-year-old younger sister of Girls star Jemima Kirke, is a good example of that herself.
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Instead of being strong and resilient, bones become weak and brittle.
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In the post-Kefauver era of the early 1950s, it had many advantages over its distant desert sister.
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To think,” said the younger Englishwoman to her sister, “of this wee mite travelling about in an open motor!
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She and her younger sister, Janet, had quarreled a good deal through force of unfortunate habit.
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“My sister is passionately fond of children,” said the elder lady, in smiling apology.
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In the spring of 1868 he was taken by his mother for a visit to England, and there, in the same year, his sister was born.
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A little boy had been quarrelling with his sister named Muriel just before going to bed.
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British Dictionary definitions for weak sister

weak sister

noun

US informal a person in a group who is regarded as weak or unreliable

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weak sister

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