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lame duck

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lame duck

▶noun

1 an ineffectual or unsuccessful person or thing.

2 chiefly N. Amer. a President or administration in the final period of office, after the election of a successor.

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