lame ducks

lame duck

• • 低能儿；残废的人，不中用的人，废物
  • [美国英语](任期将满而又未能重新当选的)落选官员(或议员)，跛脚鸭；看守官员
  • 不堪使用的破船(或飞机)
  • 破产的证券投机者(或经纪人)；无力偿债者
  • (没有政府财政援助而)难以维持的工业(或商业机构)

• theias
• pluripotents
• put sb on his best behaviour
• epicyclical
• chisel plow
• manubriums
• dropping bottle
• admixtures
• upstaged
• closed nozzle
• bizarres
• seventh chord
• be hard up for sth
• blood-sized
• cattishly
• dartlike
• penny-dogging
• Hardy, Oliver
• go back on/upon
• helitrons
• Wigtownshire
• monal
• greenism
• silver leaves
• toluyls
• editorialise
• kineto-
• glarest
• squirrel monkeys
• maximum power transfer theorem
• primitive root of unity
• potreros
• colourway
• mad at
• adjusted gross income
• can be counted on the fingers of one's hand
• artificial day
• shock organ
• eradication
• Arp
• frame in
• seduces
• accepted meaning
• crosscutting
• control premise
• psychopathia
• by way of
• draw one's last breath
• attempted murder / suicide / rape etc
• braccia
• docketer
• hot money
• automatic calling unit
• Procyonidae
• liqueur
• cornification
• flatbed plotter
• cold as ice
• Lucian
• genuflexion
• handsewed
• inso.
• piezoelectric hysteresis
• flare up
• be taken ill / sick
• refasten
• sodalities
• Torpediniformes
• the Tabernacle
• silk hat
• harmonist
• transaction data
• landing speed
• sphenopsid
• fell system
• coal pit
• foreign-flagged
• goaltenders
• tracheids
• intervene between
• cri du chat
• pseudocol
• pall on
• -aceous
• integrated absorbed dose
• lares
• soliloquizingly
• bundle branch
• asthenosphere
• amnestied
• enough said
• gowans
• beg one's bread
• WAFFs
• deflocculations
• Alfven wave
• erythr-
• Mdlle.
• bending-moment diagram
• dilettanteish