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A man of no ballast. Not steady; not to be depended on. Unsteady as a ship without ballast. A similar phrase is, “The man wants ballast.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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