wet noodle

noun8

1. •
   A noodle that is freshly made, before it dries out and becomes rigid.
2. •
   [before a noun] Wet noodle.

   • As I stumbled with wet-noodle legs onto what was now the disembarkation platform, Zed remarked that I had turned “a most peculiar shade of green." — 2007
3. •
   A wimp.

   • I am a wet noodle, she had said sadly to Sister Albertine. — 1978
4. •
   Someone or something that is limp, relaxed, or weak.

   • A day in the water in any weather need not turn you into a cold, wet noodle if you suit up in the proper attire. — 1983
5. •
   A weak handshake.

   • Clearly the "wet noodle" handshake will not conquer the world and the "knuckle grinder" will not win friends. — 2003
6. •
   (slang) A man with erectile dysfunction.

   • "Don't drink too much tonight. You know what happens when you drink too much." She lowered her voice. "You become a wet noodle." — 1978
7. •
   (slang) A flaccid penis.

   • Warm pleasure replaced cold pain and I looked down at myself... two shriveled up prunes and a wet noodle. — 2003
8. •
   A means of enacting a mild or ineffective symbolic punishment.

   • I think I understand police states and things like that. They are not intimidated by being whipped with a wet noodle, and Jackson-Vanik is a wet noodle. — 1990