Synonyms for dead duck
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
Top 10 synonyms for dead duck Other synonyms for the word dead duck
- at end of one's rope
- babe in the woods
- back to the wall
- can't win
- convicted
- cursed
- cut down
- damned
- dead duck
- dead meat
- despairing
- desponding
- destroyed
- done
- done for
- downcast
- easy pickings
- easy victim
- fated
- fey
- foreordained
- gone
- goner
- hard up
- ill-omened
- in the cards
- in the soup
- in the toilet
- inconsolable
- irrecoverable
- irremediable
- irretrievable
- kiss of death
- lamb
- lost
- luckless
- menaced
- no-chance
- no-way
- no-win
- overthrown
- overwhelmed
- predestined
- que sera sera
- reprobate
- ruined
- running out of time
- sentenced
- sinecure
- soft touch
- star-crossed
- sunk
- suppressed
- threatened
- thrown down
- toast
- undone
- unfortunate
- unredeemed
- up against it
- up the creek
- useless
- vulnerable
- wretched
Définition of dead duck
- As in desperate : adj hopeless
- As in doomed : adj condemned, hopeless
- As in sitting duck : noun easy target
- 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
Antonyms for dead duck
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