sitting duck
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sitting duck (plural sitting ducks)
- (idiomatic) An obvious or unconcealed target.
- For God's sake, Sergeant, we need to get to cover – we're sitting ducks out here.
- 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:
- Joker: We're sitting ducks out here. I have to try to lose them in the debris field!
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an obvious or unconcealed target
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