What does dead duck mean?
Idiom Meaning:
someone doomed for failure or death
Examples of this Idiom in Movies & TV Shows:
Porky Pig’s Feat (1943)
Time of Scene:
Porky Pig: “B-B-Broken Arms. B-bill. Room, uh, six-sixty-five dollars. Bath. Te-te-ten dollars and fifty cents. T-t-total: a hundred-and-fifty-two-dollars and fifty cents.”
Broken Arms Hotel Manager: You will, of course, pay the bill now before you leave, no?
Porky Pig: N-no – I mean, yes! M-my partner, Daffy Duck, will be r-right back. He’s out cashing a check.
Daffy Duck: Come on, seven! Be good to Daffy! Don’t fail me now!
Elevator Gambler: Uh-oh! Snake eyes. Too bad! You is a dead duck, duck.
Star Trek “Day of the Dove” (1968)
Time of Scene:
Captain James T. Kirk: Get off my ship. You’re a dead duck here, you’re powerless. We know about you, and we don’t want to play. Maybe… maybe there’re others like you around, maybe you’ve caused a lot of suffering, a lot of history; but that’s all over. We’ll be on guard now, we’ll be ready for you, so ship out! Come on, haul it!
Dr. McCoy: Yeah, out already!
Kang: Out! We need no urging to hate Humans. But for the present, only a fool fights in a burning house. Out!
Howard the Duck (1986)
Time of Scene:
Howard T. Duck: I’m a dead duck!
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