![]() ![]() (15) The four-year-old son of Scenic appeared perceptibly lame in his right hind leg during the broadcast. (14) I think most of it is completely lame and uninteresting until we get down to Hard Acid Techno and VGM (Video Game Music). ![]() (12) A President Kerry will make the lame walk and the blind see! (13) Well, even someone who has lame legs can play DDR - it's just a matter of how good you are at it. (10) Why can't they be open and honest, instead of giving lame excuses? (11) However he realised that it just would not be that easy, for he himself had a lame leg and could only move slowly. (9) There were also some lame sheep and others suffering from diarrhoea. (8) And a lot of it was conjured by those three lame idiots. (7) He asked, then mentally kicked himself for sounding so lame. (6) A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame. (4) Do you think that's just a lame excuse or is that true? (5) She ducked behind a bush, and knelt, weary of walking on her lame foot. (3) One time, not too long ago, I saw a line of lame dancers unable to participate in class, sitting on the sidelines, questioning when they would return to dance. (2) "Hi, " I said and regretted it immediately because I sounded so lame. “ Singing songs like ‘The Man I Love’ or ‘Porgy’ is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.”īrowse related words in the Macmillan Thesaurus.(1) Her head bowed and eyes cast down, she made a poor figure upon the pedestal, and most people did not look twice after seeing her lame foot. “ If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.” “ And who so happy, O who – As the Duck and the Kangaroo?” The score of a duck in cricket got its name from the resemblance between a 0 and a duck’s egg. You can explore more compounds and phrases by looking at the box on the right of the entry. As an adjective, lame-duck applies to a leader or parliament that has lost power and influence, usually because their time in office has known and imminent limits. A dead duck is someone who is due for punishment or something that is bound to fail, while a lame duck is someone who needs help and support. The main meanings of the verb are to lower your head or move downwards to push someone’s head under water, usually playfully and to avoid a difficult problem or issue. Duck or ducks is also used an endearment, now somewhat dated, in British English. ![]() The noun, in addition to meaning a type of water bird, also specifically refers to the female of this bird, and to its meat. The noun and verb duck have many meanings and occur in numerous compounds and idiomatic expressions, as well as a couple of phrasal verbs. The verb is later, dating from the 14th century. The first written occurrence is from the end of the 10th century. The noun duck comes from the Old English ‘duce’ which was derived from a verb meaning ‘to dive’. View the full definition in the Macmillan Dictionary A zero score by a batsman in a game of cricket ![]()
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