dead duck
死鸭子,死鸭子嘴硬,死鸭子上架,死鸭子嘴软
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- : a person or thing that is beyond help, redemption, or hope: One more missed opportunity and this whole enterprise is a dead duck.
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The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.
Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.
The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead.
Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
When he plays a sonata it is as if the composition rose from the dead and stood transfigured before you.
To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
It was no wonder that he felt quite at home in the duck-pond, which was made for web-footed folk.
It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.