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Grammar : Adj, noun



Definition of dead duck

  • As in desperate : adj hopeless
  • As in doomed : adj condemned, hopeless
  • As in sitting duck : noun easy target
Example sentences :
  • I have occasionally found a dead duck beneath the ice or floating in the water of a salt-hole.
  • Extract from : « Wild Life Near Home » by Dallas Lore Sharp
  • We wasted an hour and a quarter over that dead duck down under, and now I'm expected to go rubbin' my back all round the Pole.
  • Extract from : « With The Night Mail » by Rudyard Kipling
  • You'd sure be a dead duck long before we crossed the border, my boy!
  • Extract from : « The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island » by Lawrence J. Leslie
  • If a Heinkel or an Me 110 showed up, the old girl would be a dead duck.
  • Extract from : « A Yankee Flier in Italy » by Rutherford G. Montgomery
  • The little man got a long stick, and, reaching it out, drew the dead duck to the bank.
  • Extract from : « Mother Goose in Prose » by L. Frank Baum
  • We wasted half an hour fussing over that dead duck down under, and now I'm expected to go rubbin' my back all round the Pole.
  • Extract from : « Actions and Reactions » by Rudyard Kipling
  • I glided forward, and came near shooting the Quartermaster, who sat in a bunch of sedge-grass, with a dead duck by his side.
  • Extract from : « Crooked Trails » by Frederic Remington
  • Yet here he was locked up in their tin-can of a jail, as good as a dead duck.
  • Extract from : « Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 » by Various

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