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单词 dead duck
释义
dead duck
noun[Cusually singular]
informal
uk
/ˌded ˈdʌk/us
/ˌded ˈdʌk/
someone or something that is veryunlikelyto besuccessful,especiallybecause of amistakeorbadjudgment:
（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 thelackofmarketresearch, theprojectwas adeadduckrightfrom thestart.由于缺少市场调查，这个项目从一开始就先天不足。
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(Definition ofdead duckfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdead duck

dead duck
Practice goes on quite happily in theatres up and down the country without troubling itself over theory, which, on the other hand, is adeadduckwithout practice.
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In my view, that makes the treaty adeadduck.
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Does not this make his target for 1970 an absolutedeadduck?
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If two-thirds of the commoners do not consent, then it is a "deadduck", and cannot get any further.
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If it is not a lame duck, it is probably adeadduck.
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That measure is the deadestdeadduckthat there ever was.
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He knows that centralised socialism is adeadduck, but what does he want to put in its place?
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Apart from that, however, this idea of going on with this plane seems to me to be adeadduckbefore it is even hatched.
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Although this project is not yet adeadduck, it is a dying duck.
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It was adeadduckwhen it was taken over.
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Anybody who cared to take the trouble of looking into the matter knew that it was adeadduck.
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But their leader described the whole issue, 16 months ago, as adeadduck.
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I am not going to argue that point, because it is adeadduck.
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So far as most of us are concerned, he is adeadduckanyway.
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It was adeadduck, but only for a time.
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