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dead duck
ˌdead ˈduck noun [C usually singular] INFORMAL
► F0 someone or something that is very unlikely to be successful, especially because of a mistake or bad judgment: » Thanks to the lack of market research, the project was a dead duck right from the start.Thesaurus+: ↑Failures , ↑Accidents and disasters , ↑Higher and lower points of achievement |