mercredi 18 décembre 2013

A sitting duck!

To be a sitting duck
someone or something vulnerable to attack, physical or verbal. 

Alludes to a duck floating on the water, not suspecting that it is the object of a hunter or predator. Typically: be ~; like ~; looking like~

  • You look like a sitting duck out there. Get in here where the enemy cannot fire at you. - cible facile
  • The senator was a sitting duck because of his unpopular position on school reform.

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