LAME


Meaning of LAME in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a pathetic/lame excuse (= very weak )

That’s the most pathetic excuse I’ve ever heard.

lame duck

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

attempt

The door is falling off its hinges; a sheet of plastic makes a lame attempt to keep out the wind.

duck

I thought, Don't know about a wild goose chase, this is a lame duck chase.

And while that makes him a lame duck , he still has his veto pen and his bully pulpit.

It may be desirable to spend what could otherwise be dole money on temporarily subsidizing lame ducks to ease the transition.

Bush is not merely treating Clinton as a lame duck .

He had turned out to be a lame duck and limped out of her life.

Anyway, even though he is Congress's lamest duck , Richardson is pretending that nothing is happening.

And Richie was no longer treating him like a lame duck .

The Houston Oilers are lame ducks .

excuse

Stephen made lame excuses , saying Edward was jet-lagged and preferred to stay in his room.

It was a lame excuse , and I bluntly told him that he owed it to posterity to relate his story.

But every pretty maid had left, some without notice, others picking lame excuses from a hat.

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

I don't want to hear any of your lame excuses for being late.

It sounded lame but I really had lost my ticket.

She's always got some lame excuse for being late.

The party was lame .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And while that makes him a lame duck, he still has his veto pen and his bully pulpit.

His suspension was as lame as O. J. Simpson getting to do counseling over the telephone for domestic abuse.

In Lexington's case her parents and grandparents had good hips and she is not lame .

It may be desirable to spend what could otherwise be dole money on temporarily subsidizing lame ducks to ease the transition.

Movement is always hard to assess at this age, but avoid any puppy who moves erratically or is obviously lame !

The horse, like so many tonga horses, was lame .

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

It was Crane who had been lamed and the question arose how they were to use the horses.

One had bolted having kicked and lamed one of the verderers who had tried to hold it.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.