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  1. Sitting Ducks

    Sitting Ducks is a lithograph created by the poster artist Michael Bedard in 1977. It depicts a literal interpretation of the idiom "sitting duck". Three ducks are relaxing in the sun on white chairs by the poolside, one looks up and notices two bullet holes in the wall. Bedard then went on to create an entire series of "Sitting Ducks" related lithographs, which culminated in a children's book, a cartoon series and a video game.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sitting ducks in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sitting ducks in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of sitting ducks in a Sentence

  1. Donald Trump:

    I'm a big believer in the Second Amendment, in Paris, they had no guns. In California they had no guns. Only the bad guys had the guns. So they were like sitting ducks, every one of 'em.

  2. Brett Hankison:

    I kind of felt they were sitting ducks.

  3. Brett Hankison:

    I was almost under the impression at the time they were all being sprayed with bullets, i kind of felt they were sitting ducks.

  4. Bob Nicholls:

    I told everyone that we were going to go down the stairs very quietly. But with 150-odd people on a staircase, we were like sitting ducks. Two of my guys went ahead to make sure it was safe, we had two guys at the back. We'd move down to one floor, check the floor and then get everyone down. We did the same on the next floor. It took quite a while to get everyone down. We got out at around 3 or 4 in the morning, we were asked to take off our shoes to avoid making noise because we never knew if there were still terrorists around who could hear us. No one spoke either.

  5. Keith Pinkerton:

    If the house is flooded, you actually need to try to turn the main breaker off if power is still in the house, we’ve actually seen on the news where people sit in water with lights on; they’re just fortunate that either the breakers tripped on those outlets, or they’re just sitting ducks about to be electrocuted.

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