lame duck in English

noun

1

an official (especially the president) in the final period of office, after the election of a successor.

as a lame duck, the president had nothing to lose by approving the deal

Use "lame duck" in a sentence

1. The president nominated a lame duck to head commision.

2. Bush is not merely treating Clinton as a lame duck.

3. Now I'm the hanger - on at these parties - the lame duck.

4. And Richie was no longer treating him like a lame duck.

5. Sally always has to have a lame duck to look after.

6. The lame duck president was losing more and more control over his country.

7. No foreign policy decision can be made because of the lame duck presidency.

8. He cushions his transition into retirement by referring to himself as a lame duck.

9. He is a lame duck manager who cannot even set clear goals for his team.

10. A lame duck manager can not bring his business back on to the normal track.

11. He had turned out to be a lame duck and limped out of her life.

12. He must recognise by now that he will be a one-term, increasingly lame duck president.

13. It leaves a lame duck with the responsibility of pushing the Maastricht Bill through the Commons.

14. Former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reacts after President Trump announced a wave of lame duck pardons, including four for …

15. As President Donald Trump refused to Concede he lost reelection, the lame-duck president remained out of sight Monday while his White House advisers largely stayed silent.

16. The term lame duck refers to an elected official who has lost an election, or soon will be leaving office, during the period between the election and the date a successor will take over.

17. Canard nm duck le vilain petit Canard (fig) the ugly duckling → une filiale considérée comme le vilain petit Canard du groupe le Canard boiteux de qch (fig) the lame duck of sth → il s'est rapidement révélé être le Canard boiteux de l'équipe