Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun dead_duck

1 sense of dead duck

Sense 1
dead duck -- (something doomed to failure; "he finally admitted that the legislation was a dead duck"; "the idea of another TV channel is now a dead duck"; "as theories go, that's a dead duck")
       => failure -- (lack of success; "he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure")