Examples of 'lame duck' in a sentence
Meaning of "lame duck"
Lame duck" is a political term used to describe a government official who is in the final period of their term and has limited power or influence. They are often seen as ineffective or unable to make significant changes during this time.
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- A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient, or disabled.
- An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office.
- A person who cannot fulfill their contracts.
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I have no intention of tying myself to a lame duck.
Lame duck facing ethics charges.
And next year he becomes a lame duck.
A lame duck can still tank your record.
Every so often some lame duck paws a girl.
I do not like to think of this president as a lame duck.
You will be a lame duck there.
This is the crooked cross to the lame duck.
Government was a lame duck from the start anyway.
He was already beginning to look like a lame duck president.
Lame duck is more like it.
Watch out for a lame duck.
I am sure your lame duck must be getting impatient by now.
The coach is pressured and tosses up a lame duck.
We will be a lame duck administration.
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Equal opportunities by means of education is a bit of a lame duck.
In the lame duck session.
A lot of bad things happen in lame duck sessions.
A lame duck can still tank your record before you get started.
Bush is now what is called a lame duck president.
And his lame duck congress will be enacting several bills into law.
You are a goddamn lame duck.
Lame duck he pushed through the annexation of Texas as a state.
A commando led by a lame duck.
He was such a lame duck character That they cancelled his title.
We will put up with this lame duck for now.
But as a lame duck vice president, he might as well be.
Wake up you lame duck.
But is a lame duck presidency what he really wants?
There is a risk of another four years of lame duck presidency.
Right now is the lame duck session of the old Congress.
Cowsick people are the smashed toes of a lame duck society.
How did a lame duck like you manage to become an officer?
Castro is a lame duck.
A lame duck that's attacking its own feet with a sledgehammer.
Childs is a lame duck.
But a lame duck comes along and you become totally passionate!
That would set up another fiscal showdown during a lame duck session.
An unusual step for a lame duck president, but the country.
Now the President is nothing but a lame duck.
This effectively left the navy with a lame duck at a time when it needed a tiger.
Unless Congress cooks up more recipes for lame duck.
She is no longer simply a lame duck but a dead duck….
And if they know you are not, you are a lame duck.
In politics, a lame duck is an elected official whose successor has already been elected.
This change virtually eliminated the necessity of there being a lame duck session of Congress.
Lame duck congresses often prove to be duds ; they can also be dangerous.
Because Bush is a lame duck.
And guess where the lame duck leader of the “ indispensable nation ” has been relegated.
Blair now runs the risk of being a lame duck Prime Minister.
