Idiom of the week: Sitting Duck

Sitting Duck:


An easy target, an easy to attack victim.

Pronunciation: síting dak

Idiom -  (slang) a vulnerable, a helpless target

Example: Sitting Ducks: Soldiers come under attack from higher ground.

Stand up for your health or become a sitting duck for disease.

US east-coast cities are ‘sitting ducks’ for storms, says top Obama scientist

Quick exercise: Returning from its disastrous first mission over Bremen, the badly damaged plane was a ___________ ______, its crew battered and bleeding, their chances of making it back to England diminishing by the second.

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