0 someone or something that is very unlikely to be successful, especially because of a mistake or bad judgment -- （尤指因过错或判断失误造成的）劣势，不太可能成功的人（或事物）
In the election he said that the whole issue was a "dead duck".
He knows that centralised socialism is a dead duck, but what does he want to put in its place?
As we all know, public interest dies quickly and what concerns us so intimately at this moment will perhaps in a year or two be a "dead duck".
So we must perforce proceed to consider it, even though the debate now, and perhaps later, will resemble nothing more than the morbid anatomy of a dead duck.
Option 9 is a dead duck.
It is clear that the lame duck theory has become a dead duck one.
This has not proved a way out at all, so that is also a dead duck.
I am not going to argue that point, because it is a dead duck.
