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Meanings of poor sap in English

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Usage of poor sap in English
1
The poor sap had never seen three-dimensional color-sound images in his life.
Foundation
2
In fact you feel a mild pity for the poor sap.
The Irish Times
3
A crushed body, or some poor sap impaled by a lamppost.
Nemesis
4
I bet the poor sap was assuming she'd want him back.
After the fall
5
I expect you're thinking: The poor sap, how did he not see that coming?
The Sense of an Ending
6
Some poor sap has to push aside blockages in the colons of pregnant cattle.
The Irish Times
7
Clapper, after all, was the poor sap who'd recommended me.
Secret Sanction
8
Yes, you can say it again: You poor sap.
The Sense of an Ending
9
I don't envy the poor sap who bats next.
In every heartbeat
10
An' you took 'em all right, you poor sap, but you didn't know what you had.
The burglar who traded ted williams
11
Ralph asked, "But why would the guards throw that poor sap into the pit?"
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
12
The average shareholder is the poor sap who makes the whole exercise profitable for the other two.
Reuters
13
If some poor sap is paying you to write, the least you can do is dream up your own smart-aleck remarks.
The Irish Times
14
The senator's daughter, the one some poor sap of a husband with a great deal of luck had managed to divorce.
The Silver Pigs
15
On weekends and during the dinner rush, there was always some poor sap dressed up in a Mister Clucky chicken suit.
Finger lickin' fifteen
16
I said to myself, Here's this poor sap busting his hump trying to clear twenty grand a year in a dead business.
The burglar who traded ted williams
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