a dead duck

释义

1. 已失败（或注定要失败、毫无讨论价值）的计划（或事情等）

   a plan, an event, etc. that has failed or is certain to fail and that is therefore not worth discussing

电影里这样说 · 1 部

• If the federal government doesn't help us, we're a dead duck.Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room2005

在完整场景里学

• 安然：房间里最聪明的人2005
  • 印度电厂成了废墟：imaginary profits（并未到来的利润）
  • 自己跟自己做买卖：both sides of the transaction（交易两边都占）
  • 追问报表当场失控：losing it（当众情绪崩了）

同一词条的短语

• be dead and gone
• be a dead ringer for
• dead as a dodo
• dead as a doornail
• the dead hand of
• dead in the water
• dead meat
• dead on arrival
• dead to the world
• over my dead body
• wouldn't be seen dead
• flog a dead horse