Antonyms for dead duck

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

Synonyms for dead duck

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