I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pathetic/lame excuse (= very weak )
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That’s the most pathetic excuse I’ve ever heard.
lame duck
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attempt
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The door is falling off its hinges; a sheet of plastic makes a lame attempt to keep out the wind.
duck
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I thought, Don't know about a wild goose chase, this is a lame duck chase.
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And while that makes him a lame duck , he still has his veto pen and his bully pulpit.
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It may be desirable to spend what could otherwise be dole money on temporarily subsidizing lame ducks to ease the transition.
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Bush is not merely treating Clinton as a lame duck .
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He had turned out to be a lame duck and limped out of her life.
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Anyway, even though he is Congress's lamest duck , Richardson is pretending that nothing is happening.
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And Richie was no longer treating him like a lame duck .
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The Houston Oilers are lame ducks .
excuse
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Stephen made lame excuses , saying Edward was jet-lagged and preferred to stay in his room.
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It was a lame excuse , and I bluntly told him that he owed it to posterity to relate his story.
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But every pretty maid had left, some without notice, others picking lame excuses from a hat.
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It sounds a lame excuse , I know, but I never seem to be able to find the time.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lame duck president/governor/legislature etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I don't want to hear any of your lame excuses for being late.
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It sounded lame but I really had lost my ticket.
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She's always got some lame excuse for being late.
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The party was lame .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And while that makes him a lame duck, he still has his veto pen and his bully pulpit.
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His suspension was as lame as O. J. Simpson getting to do counseling over the telephone for domestic abuse.
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In Lexington's case her parents and grandparents had good hips and she is not lame .
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It may be desirable to spend what could otherwise be dole money on temporarily subsidizing lame ducks to ease the transition.
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Movement is always hard to assess at this age, but avoid any puppy who moves erratically or is obviously lame !
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The horse, like so many tonga horses, was lame .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was Crane who had been lamed and the question arose how they were to use the horses.
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One had bolted having kicked and lamed one of the verderers who had tried to hold it.