Lame Duck (politics)
A lame duck is an elected official who is approaching the end of his or her tenure, and especially an official whose successor has already been elected.
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Famous quotes containing the words lame and/or duck:
“For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.”
—Jerry Garcia (1942–1995)
“She shall get a duke, my dear,
As duck do get a drake;
And she shall have a young prince,
For her own fair sake.”
—Unknown. Green Grass (l. 9–12)