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lame duck
(redirected from lame ducks)

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a lame duck
1. a person or company that is in trouble and needs help. In under two years, it was transformed from a state-owned lame duck into a successful company.
(mainly American)
2. someone, especially an elected official, who cannot influence events any more, often because their job is going to end soon. The Mayor intends to run for re-election to avoid being thought of as a lame duck.
See also: duck, lame

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Lame ducks come back to Washington this week and they're not going to do much.
``If we allowed our owners to have that kind of discussion, either formally or informally, we would inevitably make lame ducks out of a number of teams, which would be unfair to the public and a stupid thing to do.
Powell's posse claimed that neither the secretary of state nor his deputy had ever said they intended to step down, and charged that the neocons were leaking a canard to turn the two men they consider lame doves into lame ducks.
 
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