SITTING DUCK

sitting duck: translation

*a sitting duck

Fig. someone or something vulnerable to attack, physical or verbal. (Alludes to a duck floating on the water, not suspecting that it is the object of a hunter or predator. *Typically: be \sitting duck; like \sitting duck; looking like\sitting duck.) •

You look like a sitting duck out there. Get in here where the enemy cannot fire at you.

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The senator was a sitting duck because of his unpopular position on school reform.

sitting duck: translation

babe, boob, breeze, butt, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, easy target, easy thing, fall guy, fish, fool, gobe-mouches, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, innocent, leadpipe cinch, mark, monkey, patsy, picnic, pie, piece of cake, pigeon, plaything, prize sap, pushover, sap, saphead, schlemiel, setup, sinecure, sitter, snap, stooge, sucker, toy, trusting soul, velvet, victim

1) лёгкая добыча, человек, которого легко обмануть

2) легко поражаемая цель