| 词汇 | sitting duck |
| 释义 | sitting duck Theme: TARGET n. someone who waits unsuspectingly for doom or destiny; an easy target for something bad.Get out of the way! You're a sitting duck.The guy was a sitting duck for a mugging. Idiom sitting duck something or someone that is easy to attack or criticize.Unarmed policemen walking the streets late at night are sitting ducks. sitting duck noun 1 an easy target. Originally military; figurative use of hunting imagery UK, 1944. 2 a stolen car discovered by police through serendipitous checking of number plates US, 1970 sitting duckSomething that is unprotected and vulnerable to an easy attack. When my car broke down in a bad neighborhood, I felt like a sitting duck, just waiting to get robbed. We can't go into that area unarmed, we'd be sitting ducks! *sitting duckFig. someone or something vulnerable to attack, physical or verbal. (Alludes to a duck floating on the water, not suspecting that it is the object of a hunter or predator. *Typically: be ~; like ~; looking like~.) You look like a sitting duck out there. Get in here where the enemy cannot fire at you. The senator was a sitting duck because of his unpopular position on school reform. sitting duckAn easy target, as in If you park in front of a fire hydrant, you're a sitting duck for a ticket. This term alludes to the ease with which a hunter can shoot a duck that remains in one spot, in contrast to one in flight. [First half of 1900s] a sitting duckIf someone is a sitting duck, they are in a situation where it is very easy to attack them or criticize them. A pilot performing this manoeuvre would be a sitting duck for a second enemy aircraft. Note: You can also use sitting-duck before a noun. When the planes reach the sitting-duck warships, the harbour is rocked by a series of huge explosions. Note: A duck is an easy target for hunters when it is sitting on the water or on the ground. sitting ducka person or thing with no protection against an attack or other source of danger.a ˌsitting ˈduck/ˈtargeta person or thing that is very easy to attack or criticize: It’s always easy to criticize teachers; they’re just sitting ducks.sitting duck n. someone who waits unsuspectingly for doom or destiny; an easy target for something bad. Get out of the way! You’re a sitting duck. sitting duck, aAn easy target. This expression clearly alludes to the ease with which a hunter can shoot a duck that is sitting still, in contrast to one in flight. It was transferred to other enterprises in the first half of the twentieth century. |
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