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lame duck - translation to greek
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
The lame duck; Lame Duck; Lame duck (disambiguation); Lameduck; Lame-duck; Lame Ducks
lame duck
n. καταψηφισθείς βουλευτής του οποίου η θητεία δεν έληξε ακόμη
καταψηφισθείς βουλευτής του οποίου η θητεία δεν έληξε ακόμη
lame duck
roast duck
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MEAT FROM DUCK
Duck dish; Duck dishes; Duck meat; Duck fat; Magret; Duck (meat); Roast duck; Duck (food); Seared duck; Pan seared duck; Pan-seared duck; List of duck dishes; Edible duck
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Definition
lame duck
(lame ducks)
1.
If you describe someone or something as a lame duck, you are critical of them because they are not successful and need to be helped a lot.
...lame-duck industries.
N-COUNT: oft N n [disapproval]
2.
If you refer to a politician or a government as a lame duck, you mean that they have little real power, for example because their period of office is coming to an end.
...a lame duck government.
N-COUNT: usu N n
Wikipedia
Lame duck
A lame duck situation generally refers to a time frame between a decision and its implementation.
It may also refer to:
- Lame duck (politics), an elected official who is approaching the end of his or her tenure, and especially an official whose successor has already been elected
- Lame duck session, a legislative session that takes place after an election but before newly elected members are seated
- Lame duck (game design), a player in a game who cannot win, yet remains in the game
- Lame Ducks (TV series), a British sitcom
- Lame Duck Amendment, an informal name for the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Lame duck season, in professional sports, a season prior to or during which a team has announced its intent to relocate to another metropolitan area but will remain in its existing home until the next year. Examples include:
- 1995 Cleveland Browns season, in which the team's reorganization in Baltimore was announced midway through
- 1996 Houston Oilers season, in which the team's move to Tennessee was announced beforehand
- 2017 Oakland Raiders season, in which the team's intent to move to Las Vegas was announced before the season and did not occur until after three full seasons in Oakland
- Brain Donors, a 1992 film originally titled Lame Ducks
Examples of use of lame duck
1. "He‘s a lame duck but he‘s rather a vigorous lame duck with a bite," he said.
2. He‘s a lame duck, but he‘s rather a vigorous lame duck with a bite – if that‘s not a mixed metaphor.
3. Related Articles Lame duck proves costly_(...ECONOMY...)
4. But three months out from Election Day, a lame–duck Congress conducting oversight of a lame–duck White House produces mostly talk.
5. In the political world, even a lame duck has talons.