Sentences with phrase «chronic underachiever»

A chronic underachiever takes a job at his father - in - law's advertising firm and locks horns with his wife's paraplegic former lover.

Synopsis: On his 40th birthday, chronic underachiever Jerry Ferro (Adam Carolla) loses his carpentry job and his girlfriend.

Terry, who took the Flyers to the Cup finals in 1997, will instill discipline in a team of chronic underachievers, such as defenseman Ed Jovanovski, center Viktor Kozlov and injury - prone center Rob Niedermayer.

It's a damning indictment of Spurs» recent transfer policy that Paulinho, Etienne Capoue, Benjamin Stambouli and Vlad Chiriches — all signed in the last two years — have been moved on, while Eric Lamela and Roberto Soldado, also bought during that period for more than # 50m, have proven to be chronic underachievers and a spectacular waste of money.

Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as emotional and behavioral difficulties.