Portuguese-English translations for peso morto

• dead weight
  This surplus capacity is acting like a dead weight on the world shipbuilding market and even threatening the future of some European yards. Este excesso de capacidade funciona como um peso morto no mercado mundial da construção naval e, inclusivamente, ameaça a existência de alguns estaleiros europeus.
  She wants to shed the dead weight of so many stacks of old clutter.
• fifth wheel
  I felt like a fifth wheel when both of them started giggling and making out during dinner

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• peso
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• contrapeso
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