excess baggage | Idiomator

Meaning: (literally,travel)Luggagewhich exceeds theallowablesize or weight (as for an airline flight or train trip), and for which anextrafeemust therefore be paid.2003August 29, Roger Collis, “Frequent Traveler: Send blues packing”, inNew York Times, retrieved20 June 2013:Watch your weight:Excess baggageis damaging to the wallet. Airlines charge typically from $20 to $30 a kilogram.; (idiomatic)Something or someone notneededor notwanted; something or someone of littleuseorimportance; something or someone consideredburdensome.1922February,James Joyce, “[Episode 14]”, inUlysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company,[…],→OCLC:Come on, you dog-gone, bullnecked, beetlebrowed, hogjowled, peanutbrained, weaseleyed four flushers, false alarms andexcess baggage!1976Dec. 6, Paul Gray, "Books: Book of Changes" (review ofThe Woman WarriorbyMaxine Hong Kingston),Time:Exiles and refugees . . . are likely to find the old ways and old languageexcess baggage, especially if their adopted homeland is the U.S., where the race is to the swift and the adaptable.; (idiomatic)Adubiousorunhelpfulmentaloutlook,emotionaldisposition, or personalhistory.c.1905,O. Henry,The Handbook of Hymen:A chin-whiskered man in Walla-Walla, carrying a line of hope asexcess baggage, had grubstaked us.1996April 8,Murray Chass, “On Baseball: An Early Lesson on Expectation vs. Reality”, inNew York Times, retrieved20 June 2013:The Pirates entered the season lugging no one's expectations asexcess baggage.2004March 24, J. F. Kelly Jr., “Living with his anti-war past”, inSan Diego Source, retrieved20 June 2013:Every candidate for public office probably has someexcess baggageto carry around that he'd rather not have. With Sen. John Kerry, it's undoubtedly his anti-Vietnam War activism.

Examples:

EN: Yeah, well... I guess I'm gonna be the little old excess baggage around here from now on.
ES: Me hace que seré un lastre por aquí, desde ahora.
EN: Well, I'm taking so much excess baggage, I... suppose I might as well take you too.
ES: Estoy llevando tanto exceso de equipaje que... supongo que bien podría llevarte a ti también.
EN: Suffer. Suffer, excess baggage.
ES: Sufre, regordeta, sufre.
EN: You have 16 pounds excess baggage, Mr. Gibbons.
ES: - Tiene 8 kilos de sobrepeso.
EN: So I just followed that 90 pounds of excess baggage to Mexico City.
ES: Decidí seguir la pista del exceso de equipaje hasta Ciudad de México.
EN: You don't want any excess baggage where you're going.
ES: No querrán exceso de carga en su camino.
EN: He's just a useless piece of excess baggage, a selfish thrill-seeker.
ES: Él es sólo un inútil de exceso de equipaje, un egoísta aventurero. Pero sin él, no tendríamos ninguna expedición.
EN: I beg you not to ruin yourselfbefore you start by loading your pack with excess baggage.
ES: Pero te ruego que no te arruines antes de empezar... aumentando tu carga con equipaje de más.
EN: They say I'm just a piece of excess baggage.
ES: Dicen que sólo soy exceso de equipaje.
EN: You're going to a lot of trouble for someone you figure to be excess baggage.
ES: Sí que se está tomando molestias con alguien que es exceso de equipaje.
EN: You're still excess baggage.
ES: Sigue siendo así.
EN: I'm excess baggage.
ES: Aquí estoy de más.
EN: They're empty, just excess baggage now.
ES: Están vacíos, y son un exceso de peso.
EN: I do consider you and your morality excess baggage... but since I'm off to Frankfurt tonight at 8:30...
ES: Considero que tú y tu moralidad son un peso... pero, dado que voy a Frankfurt esta noche a las 8:30...
EN: No co-pilots, no excess baggage.
ES: Sin copiloto, sin exceso de equipaje.

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