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sitting duck

noun

Definitions

  1. An obvious, vulnerable target.

    • For God's sake, Sergeant, we need to get to cover – we're sitting ducks out here.
    • [Now that the last gay bathhouse has closed] the AIDS Action Committee will no longer have all of those sitting ducks to reach with education
    • Joker: We're sitting ducks out here. I have to try to lose them in the debris field!

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