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lame duck noun

  • (colloquial) A person or thing that is helpless, inefficient, or disabled.
 boulet, canard boiteux
  • (US, politics) An elected official who has lost the recent election or is not eligible for reelection and is marking time until leaving office.
 canard boiteux
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