Sentences with phrase «dead duck»

Many hilarious stories were brought back, along with the strings of dead ducks, from these adventures.

The prevailing wisdom appears to be that Alberta's recently - announced Bill C - 12 is a constitutional dead duck.

What Labour have grasped, but the Tories have not, is that in the current economic climate green politics are a complete dead duck.

«Dead Duck Walking: The Supreme Court takes on those nasty campaign commercials.»

The prevailing wisdom appears to be that Alberta's recently - announced Bill C - 12 is a constitutional dead duck.

I think that (partly thanks to J L Austin and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations) among modern analytical philosophers idealism in the form that matter doesn't exist at all, or that if it does, it can not be known because our knowledge is limited to the contents of our own minds, is a dead duck.

Aqualung my friend Feeling like a dead duck Spitting out pieces of his broken luck.

He decided to join the Total Wellbeing Diet after his doctor told him he was a dead duck for diabetes.

Those identified in Siberia were, alas, dead ducks.

Many people, mostly skiers, will tell you that the snowshoe is something of a dead duck in the world of winter sports.

the player is probably a dead duck who needs to be cut loose

Then, swimming in ever widening circles and looking back for directions from his handler, Pilot managed to locate and retrieve the dead duck.

This still left the possibility that our forward could be sold abroad, but that was only likely to be to Bayern Munich and that deal now appears to be a dead duck, with The Mirror reporting that the German club have instead signed the Colombian star James Rodriguez on loan from Real Madrid.

I would have never picked him for the Man U job, that team has been under invested in for years and was a dead duck for me.

Better to be a live chicken than a dead duck my mama always told me!

It will only insure that a dead duck gets properly buried and the left with it.

Senators Mark Grisanti and Tim Kennedy, whose districts include the creek, called for action Monday after witnessing a repulsive scene that included trash filled creek water, three dead ducks, and a fourth paralyzed -LSB-...]

«This does not mean shareholder power is a «dead duck».

ALBANY — Gov. Paterson, acting more like a dead duck than a lame one, never even made it to the office yesterday.

During an interview this week on WGDJ - AM, he said Cuomo was a «dead duck» and pointed to former Gov. George Pataki, a rank - and - file state legislator who toppled the current governor's father almost a quarter century ago.

This will make Patterson a dead duck but next year's primary.

But that hasn't stopped British newspaper The Mail on Sunday trying to resurrect a dead duck: this time claiming that scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) played fast and loose with data on a well - regarded 2015 paper in Science that definitively showed there was no pause in global warming.

At this point another male approached and mated with the dead duck for over an hour.

LANGUAGE 3 - 7 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 8 mild obscenities, 2 derogatory terms for the French, name - calling (white devils, circus clown, imbecile, malcontent, ridiculous, stupid, dirty thief, dead duck, ridiculous joke, crazy, difficult, phony), 2 religious profanities (GD), 9 religious exclamations (e.g. Jesus Christ Almighty, God Bless Them, Jesus Christ, Jesus, Oh My God, For Christ's Sake).

Unfortunately, the gang's newfound happy - go - lucky existence looks like a dead duck when college dean Gordon Pritchard (Jeremy Piven) predictably sticks his oar in.

Not really, consider what Yoshida did with FFXIV, it was a dead duck before he came in and now it is flourishing, having him on the board of directors can only mean good things, same with the producer of NieR Automata — that game was a massive risk and it ended up being one of the best games released last year.

There were no $ 50 million bets, no big press conferences, there aren't even any dead ducks.

In the meantime the BNO (S) hypothesis has gained the attributes of what in Probability Theory is technically called a dead duck.

But a year later Cooper pronounced it «bound to fail» and proposed a «common carbon emissions tax,» and Nordhaus called it a «dead duck,» and proposed a «harmonized carbon tax.»

1998 - 07 Nordhaus, William, «Is the Kyoto Protocol a Dead Duck?

The first rule of science is, «The minute you begin to believe your own hypothesis, you are a dead duck as a scientist.»

The second you give off a whiff of «I don't care about anything you say, I'm just trying to get a job» you are a dead duck.

At price of 40k it is dead duck.

Depending on who's talking, Platform as a Service as a standalone category is a dead duck or it is the IT development and deployment model of the future.

The dead duck is 2» tall, 2» deep, and 1.75» wide.