Crossword clues for sitting duck
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. (context idiomatic English) An obvious or unconcealed target.
WordNet
n. a defenseless victim [syn: easy mark]
Usage examples of "sitting duck".
But I don't intend to remain here like a sitting duck while he comes and clobbers us.
Today's beat cop in any large city is a sitting duck for snipers, rapers, dope addicts, bomb-throwers and communist fruits.
I would be a sitting duck disguised and crouched behind a chair clutching the tools of my crime.
There had to be a change of plan because I was a sitting duck and the best thing to do was leave the radio here and go down and put on the scuba and wait with my head above water, ready to submerge as soon as anyone came down from the deck.
While it's true that Moon Base controls the Earth, Moon Base itself is a sitting duck for a ship.
Both fighters understand, at this point, that Ali has already tried what he and his handlers felt was the best strategy for dealing with Leon: that was the time-tested rope-a-dope, which assumed that a frenzied, undisciplined fighter like Spinks would punch himself out in the early rounds, like George Foreman, and become a tired sitting duck for Ali by the time the bell rang for number ten.
I set my hand over the acceleration threads, afraid to let the mat slow to a walking pace here where I am bound to be a sitting duck.