lame duck

What's more, they would have been lame ducks in their second terms.

"I think people are wrong to say she is a lame duck in 2000," he said.

But they do not expect to see a lame duck.

If they lose, he'll be a lame duck for the rest of term.

If you win four straight years, you're a lame duck.

"For the moment, they seem to have decided to go ahead and not to treat him as a lame duck."

His experience over the last two years was considered important at this critical meeting, even though he would be a lame duck.

Who says that nothing gets done under a lame duck?

But he was still a lame duck when the season ended nearly four weeks ago.

"He did not want to appear to be a lame duck."