Lame duck can refer to:
- Lame duck (politics), an elected official who is approaching the end of his or her tenure, and especially an official whose successor has already been elected.
- Lame duck session (United States), an interval of legislative inactivity – not always because members are lame ducks
- Lame duck (game design), a player in a game who cannot win, yet remains in the game.
- Lame duck (tango), a position in tango
- Lame Ducks (TV series), a British sitcom
- Lame Duck Amendment, an informal name for the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Famous quotes containing the words lame and/or duck:
“A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as to lame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Here is no eft or mortal snake
But only sluggish duck and drake.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)