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dead duck: something doomed to failure; "he finally admitted that the legislation was a dead duck"; "the idea of another TV channel is now a dead duck"; "as theories go, that's a dead duck"

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Related Words:

beat it collapse

vamoose collapse

scram collapse: leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!"

terminal case collapse

take a powder collapse

zombie collapse: several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur

slip out of collapse

welsh collapse: a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales; a Celtic language of Wales; of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language; "the Welsh coast"; "Welsh syntax"; cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt

lam collapse

malinger collapse: avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill

gosling collapse: young goose

duck out collapse

standstill collapse

cadaver collapse: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

also ran collapse

spook collapse: frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action; "The noise spooked the horse"

shirk collapse: avoid dealing with; "She shirks her duties"

corpse collapse

bite the dust collapse

ashes collapse

dead tired collapse

whacked collapse: (British informal) exhausted or worn out

dog tired collapse

tuckered out collapse

bushed collapse

late lamented collapse

deadlock collapse: a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations"

dead stop collapse

full stop collapse

all in collapse

stalemate collapse: drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check; subject to a stalemate

corpus delicti collapse: the body of evidence that constitute the offence; the objective proof that a crime has been committed (sometimes mistakenly thought to refer to the body of a homicide victim)

mummy collapse: a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)

fall guy collapse

deceased collapse

elapsed collapse: (of time) having passed or slipped by; "elapsed time"

kook collapse: someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group

crackpot collapse: a whimsically eccentric person

as the crow flies collapse: by the shortest and most direct route; "it's 10 miles as the crow flies"

expired collapse: having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; "an expired passport"; "caught driving with an expired license"

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