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Dead duck   /dɛd dək/   Listen
Dead duck

noun
1.
Something doomed to failure.  "The idea of another TV channel is now a dead duck" , "As theories go, that's a dead duck"





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"Dead duck" Quotes from Famous Books



... object poked into his ribs. "You will be what you call in this country a dead duck!" the stranger warned. "I will then let myself ...
— Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X • Victor Appleton


Words linked to "Dead duck" :   failure


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