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A lame duck. A stock-jobber who will not, or cannot, pay his losses. He has to “waddle out of the alley like a lame duck.”
Like a dying duck in a thunderstorm. Quite chop-fallen.
To get a duck. A contraction of duck’s egg or 0, in cricket. A player who gets no run off his bat is marked down 0.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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