lame duck

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)

• Puglia
• problemsome
• Mao
• cribbage boards
• point four
• monkeyshine
• spa
• commonwealth
• indeterminacy
• subzone
• pentimenti
• inveigled
• ametria
• gainsayers
• fattening up
• hydrops fetalis
• povera
• get a line on
• knight of industry
• outside diameter
• critical voltage
• perpetual checks
• circular reference
• take up the running
• enuf
• hoising
• motivators
• loaf
• honewort
• Powellist
• betestableness
• dactylo-
• self-depreciative
• give the dope
• falangists
• first pass effect
• mazedly
• vancomycin
• be born to purple
• lucky dips
• credit insurance
• flummoxing
• muletas
• the likes of
• sling dogs
• have the courage of your (own) convictions
• Fabian tactics
• floss
• compass plants
• give/lend color to
• director
• papilledemas
• bourdons
• cephalosporin
• mount the ladder
• giganticness
• investigators
• d.o.
• removabilities
• intrasternal
• combustible loss
• pardon / excuse my French
• lytic
• graniform
• wildlife sanctuary
• horn-rims
• Apron Conveyors
• sort out
• autocycle
• heap
• coypuss
• boroscopes
• hold sb responsible / accountable / liable (for sth)
• radar fix
• bump-and-run
• take the throne
• Khachaturian, Aram
• as things stand
• cytoproximal
• Alant, strach
• go under
• smoking
• ways and meanss
• preluder
• apron pan
• barber-shop
• beat one's breast
• Daniels, Josephus
• cahoot
• rationalisation
• come into one's own
• nucleating agent
• huaquero
• Denisyuk hologram
• post up
• non-humans
• house rats
• hexamine
• tropolones
• double-decked