An obvious or unconcealed target.
For God's sake, Sergeant, we need to get to cover – we're sitting ducks out here..
A person or thing that is considered vulnerable, to easily get attacked by something
The mother asked her child to be careful and avoid being a sitting duck as it was his first day in the class.
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बैठा हुआ बतख
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Nearby phrases
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duck outduck outduck soupduck testgolden duckif it quacks like a duck, waddles like …is anyone sitting hereLame Ducklike a duck takes to waterlike a duck to waterlike water off a duck's backno duck no dinnerodd duckquack like a ducksitting down for thissitting prettysitting prettySitting Prettytake sitting downtake to something like a duck to watertight as a duck's arse
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