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dead duck
(redirected from dead ducks)

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dead duck
Fig. someone or something that is certain to die or fail. If I fail that test, I'm a dead duck. When the outlaw drew his pistol, the sheriff knew he was a dead duck.
See also: dead, duck


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During the study period (February to September 2004), our laboratory received 450 sick, moribund, or dead ducks from 25 flocks in the western and central provinces of Thailand.
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They're fed to cattle, along with dead ducks, geese, elk, and deer.
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