The president demonstrated an interest in intervening in New York politics when he attempted to get dead-duck Governor David Paterson to quit the race. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In addition, he wants the Illinois General Assembly to approve an increase in the fall veto session, which will be full of dead-duck lawmakers, in a couple of weeks. ❋ David Ormsby (2010)
But slightly more relevant than dead-duck, Bush The Incompetent. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Meanwhile Government of the country continues to drift aimlessly under a Prime Minister who is not so much ‘lame-duck’ as ‘dead-duck’. ❋ Unknown (2007)
In left field, he's won the Gold Glove each time, throwing out base runners with dead-duck accuracy. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Also various political diatribes, a few dead-duck plays, and numerous essays. ❋ James Burke (2007)
Aimless, chubby-cheeked, seemingly talent-free and determinedly trading off the family name, she made dead-duck albums like Dream Street and fleshed out the casts of Good Times and Fame. ❋ Unknown (1997)
Then, when the second one showed up and dove in, he'd gone into a dead-duck spin. ❋ Everett B. Cole (N/A)
Seeing a hawk soaring overhead, Oo-koo-hoo said it reminded him of a hawk that once bothered him by repeatedly swooping down among his dead-duck decoys, and each time he had to rush from his blind to drive the hawk away or it would have carried away one of his dead ducks; and being short of ammunition, he did not care to waste a shot. ❋ Arthur Henry Howard Heming (1905)
The upshot for Merkel is "a dead-duck coalition partner whose actions may now become unpredictable," Nils Diederich, a politics professor at Berlin's Free University, said by phone. ❋ Unknown (2011)
WASHINGTON - In a swift and improbable political turnaround, the lame-duck Congress has revived a dead-duck President, pols and pundits believe. ❋ Unknown (2010)
There was a weird nod to Plucka Duck in Nine's dead-duck shooting gallery graphic, in which losing MPs were shot down. ❋ Unknown (2010)
However, even as that 1974 promo film for "It's Only Rock'N'Roll (But I Like It)" flickered on children's TV, our elders were declaring the Stones a spent force with a dead-duck dictator, his power reduced to a pair of rubber lips and a black, rotting soul. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Gold was low, and there was a bubble in Internet stocks - why would anyone want to get involved in a dead-duck, 19th century, "choo-choo train" industry like gold mining? ❋ Unknown (2009)
He’s reached dead-duck status and the retrievers are out sniffing for the carcass. ❋ Unknown (2005)
(Inhofe's willingness to rip Paulson a new one is a great indicator of how the Bushies are closer to dead-duck instead of merely being lame: Senator Inhofe suggests Paulson "may have given the [bailout] money to his friends.") "I made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago ... ❋ Unknown (2008)
[oh] are you a dead duck [please respond] to my [queries] ❋ Vpad (2006)
[Don]: If I [don't] [bolt] it before the police [get here], I'll be a dead duck! ❋ Doukie (2009)
Boss: "The customer just called me and said that their order was [right on] [the count], good job."
[Packer]: "Well I'll fuck a dead duck!" ❋ Jumpingrat (2007)
[Megan] is really a Dead Duck, [shes] [no fun]. ❋ Millionaire Man (2011)
