Translations for „sitting duck“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

sitting duck N

sitting duck → sitting target

See also sitting target

sitting target N

sitting target

легко́ поража́емая цель f

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If you can't do the maths in your head, you are a sitting duck.

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The state can not be a sitting duck in the face of an adversary with ill-intent.

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Any five-eighth standing close will look like a sitting duck to the flanker, who is therefore keyed up to flatten him.

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Burns was glued to the crease, a veritable sitting duck.

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If you don't have security controls in place, you are a sitting duck.

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Cause you're confined in that compartment, you're a sitting duck.

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And most certainly one's partisanship can make one either a sitting duck or an intimidating adversary.

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Failure to secure a fixed rate can leave a company as a sitting duck if exchange rates go against it.

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It depicts a literal interpretation of the idiom sitting duck.

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I hated being "that girl" -- the sitting duck, wallet exposed and vulnerable.

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