DEADDUCK
dead duck
Noun
- One who is in serious danger or trouble.
- She's a dead duck if she starts flirting with my boyfriend!
- A project that is doomed to failure from the start.
- The government decision meant that the proposed boycott of South African goods was a dead duck.
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