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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hopeless |
| Synonyms: | at end of one's rope, back to the wall, can't win, dead duck, despairing, despondent, desponding, downcast, forlorn, futile, gone*, goner, hard up, in the soup, in the toilet, inconsolable, irrecoverable, irremediable, irretrievable, no-chance, no-way, no-win, running out of time, sad, sunk, up against it, up the creek, useless, vain, wretched |
| Antonyms: | hopeful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sitting duck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy target |
| Synonyms: | babe in the woods, dead duck, dead meat, easy pickings, easy victim, lamb, pushover, sinecure, soft touch, toast, vulnerable |
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