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Discover LudwigThe expression "dead duck" is correct and can be used in written English.
This idiom is used to refer to a situation that is not likely to succeed, or a thing that is no longer of any use. For example: "The new project was a dead duck from the start; it was never going to succeed."
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dead duck
noun
One who is in serious danger or trouble; shark bait.
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Garner ordered "dead duck".
I think it is a dead duck".
"The physical distribution system is a dead duck".
Meritocracy is what's politely called a dead duck.
Eternal or not, that is one freshly dead duck.
IS THE fixed-line phone a dead duck?
All in all, Leadsom should be a dead duck.
To validate the method, thirty-eight clinical samples and thirty artificially infected samples collected from dead duck embryos were studied.
The head of the Transport Workers Union, Tony Sheldon, labelled the regulator an inefficient " dead duck".
No longer a dead duck, the hopes of engineers are riding on bobbing floats again.
Shrubshole said: "Coal CCS [carbon capture and storage] is a dead duck.
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