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dead duck
(redirected from dead ducks)

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a dead duck
1. something or someone that is not successful or useful. The project was a dead duck from the start due to a lack of funding. My first agent turned out to be a bit of a dead duck and he failed to find me any work.
2. someone who is going to be punished severely for something they have done. If Dad finds out you used the car, you'll be 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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