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lame duck

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | © The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2009, originally published by Oxford University Press 2009. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

lame duck • n. an official (esp. 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 [as adj.] a lame-duck governor. ∎ an ineffectual or unsuccessful person or thing.

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