sitting ducknoun [ C ]
uk/ˌsɪt.ɪŋ ˈdʌk/us/ˌsɪt̬.ɪŋ ˈdʌk/someone or something that is very easy for an enemy to shoot or attack:
With their bullets all gone, the soldiers were sitting ducks for the enemy.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- impotent
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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