What's more, they would have been lame ducks in their second terms.

He was already beginning to look like a lame duck President.

Who says that nothing gets done under a lame duck?

But they do not expect to see a lame duck.

"I think people are wrong to say she is a lame duck in 2000," he said.

But he was still a lame duck when the season ended nearly four weeks ago.

If you win four straight years, you're a lame duck.

"He did not want to appear to be a lame duck."

The contract was offered by lame duck board members in 2004.

If they lose, he'll be a lame duck for the rest of term.

"For the moment, they seem to have decided to go ahead and not to treat him as a lame duck."

I said, How many times have we gone to help the lame ducks, and lost a prize by it?

The budget's an important issue coming out of the lame duck session.

His experience over the last two years was considered important at this critical meeting, even though he would be a lame duck.

Members of Congress in similar circumstances are also considered "lame ducks."

Now their influence is fading, and they seem lame ducks.

We can blame many including ourselves for being such lame ducks.

If for no other reason, they said, he was practically a lame duck anyway.

But he's a lame duck at the center of attention."

So he is expected to face a year, until the 2005 presidential elections, as a lame duck.

"They took this bill and jammed it through in lame duck."

Next year, the governor will either be a lame duck or running for re-election.

All the talk during his recovery about being a lame duck only made him more determined.

These companies are the lame ducks of an abandoned command system.

No lame duck session since 1935 has occurred through this means.