Meaning of sitting duck | Babel Free

Definitions

An obvious, vulnerable target.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“For God's sake, Sergeant, we need to get to cover – we're sitting ducks out here.”

“[Now that the last gay bathhouse has closed] the AIDS Action Committee will no longer have all of those sitting ducks to reach with education”

“Joker: We're sitting ducks out here. I have to try to lose them in the debris field!”

“The soldiers were sitting ducks, sent forth by Russian commanders to act essentially as human cannon fodder in an assault.”

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