| 词汇 | dead-duck |
| 释义 | dead duck noun[ Cusually singular ] informaluk /ˌded ˈdʌk/ us /ˌded ˈdʌk/ someone or something that is very unlikely to be successful, especially because of a mistake or bad judgment: （尤指因过错或判断失误造成的）劣势，不太可能成功的人（或事物） Thanks to the lack of market research, the project was a dead duck right from the start.由于缺少市场调查，这个项目从一开始就先天不足。 Failures another/the final nail in the coffinidiom bloodbath brain freeze breakdown busted flush car crash fiasco flameout flop foul (something) up freefall hash lemon loser parody post-crash pratfall reversal slim pickings slush pile Examples of dead duckdead duck Practice goes on quite happily in theatres up and down the country without troubling itself over theory, which, on the other hand, is a deadduck without practice. In my view, that makes the treaty a deadduck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does not this make his target for 1970 an absolute deadduck? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If two-thirds of the commoners do not consent, then it is a "deadduck", and cannot get any further. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If it is not a lame duck, it is probably a deadduck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That measure is the deadest deadduck that there ever was. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He knows that centralised socialism is a deadduck, but what does he want to put in its place? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Apart from that, however, this idea of going on with this plane seems to me to be a deadduck before it is even hatched. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although this project is not yet a deadduck, it is a dying duck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was a deadduck when it was taken over. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Anybody who cared to take the trouble of looking into the matter knew that it was a deadduck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But their leader described the whole issue, 16 months ago, as a deadduck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not going to argue that point, because it is a deadduck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So far as most of us are concerned, he is a deadduck anyway. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was a deadduck, but only for a time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of dead duck These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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