turkey shoot sitting duck

turkey shoot

NOUN
informal
a situation, typically in a war, in which one side has an overwhelming advantage:
"a high-tech turkey shoot rather than a war"

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sitting duck

NOUN
INFORMAL
a person or thing with no protection against an attack or other source of danger.
SIMILAR:
dupe
fair game
sitting target
stooge
gull
fool
Aunt Sally
target
prey
quarry
object
subject
recipient
focus
easy target
easy prey
everybody's fool
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a sitting duck
sitting duck
A person or thing that is vulnerable to or unprotected from attack; an easy target.
I wouldn't leave your car parked here overnight. It will be a sitting duck in this neighborhood, just waiting to be stolen.
We can't go into that area unarmed—we'd be sitting ducks!
I felt like a sitting duck walking by myself through the park at night.
See also: duck, sitting
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
a sitting duck
If someone is a sitting duck, they are in a situation where it is very easy to attack them or criticize them. A pilot performing this manoeuvre would be a sitting duck for a second enemy aircraft. Note: You can also use sitting-duck before a noun. When the planes reach the sitting-duck warships, the harbour is rocked by a series of huge explosions. Note: A duck is an easy target for hunters when it is sitting on the water or on the ground.
See also: duck, sitting
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
a ;sitting ;duck/;target a person or thing that is very easy to attack or criticize: It’s always easy to criticize teachers; they’re just sitting ducks.
See also: duck, sitting, target
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
sitting duck, a
An easy target. This expression clearly alludes to the ease with which a hunter can shoot a duck that is sitting still, in contrast to one in flight. It was transferred to other enterprises in the first half of the twentieth century.
See also: sitting
The Dictionary of Clich;s by Christine Ammer Copyright © 2013 by Christine Ammer
See also:
a sitting duck/target
sitting duck
sitting duck, a
be like a sitting duck
be a sitting duck
like a sitting duck
feel like a sitting duck
wall job
meter
feed the meter

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German
sitzende Ente?