One of the most persistent myths in American politics is the media-fueled concept of the lame duck.
Also, he gave a lame excuse: ‘I couldn't find a pic that expresses both sides.’
Most of the activities were either dominated by a handful of true athletes, or they were just lame.
Your criticism of me as a hypocrite is lame, weak and not really thought out.
He's a lame duck who looks very vulnerable and won't even be able to exact much retribution if he manages to win.
The crowd had thickened in front, so that the lame man and the girl had come to a stand.
The lame girl who played the violin limped down the corridor into the ward.
"Certainly," I replied, deeply sighing at the recital of so lame a story.
First the blind, then the deaf and the dumb, then the halt and the lame—and so on.
"I wish there were crowns for lame boys to win," said Charmides.
"silk interwoven with metallic threads," 1922, from French lame, earlier "thin metal plate (especially in armor), gold wire; blade; wave (of the sea)," from Middle French lame, from Latin lamina, lamna "thin piece or flake of metal."
Old English lama "crippled, lame; paralytic, weak," from Proto-Germanic *lamon (cf. Old Norse lami, Dutch and Old Frisian lam, German lahm "lame"), "weak-limbed," literally "broken," from PIE root *lem- "to break; broken," with derivatives meaning "crippled" (cf. Old Church Slavonic lomiti "to break," Lithuanian luomas "lame"). In Middle English, "crippled in the feet," but also "crippled in the hands; disabled by disease; maimed." Sense of "socially awkward" is attested from 1942. Noun meaning "crippled persons collectively" is in late Old English.
"to make lame," c.1300, from lame (adj.). Related: Lamed; laming.
lame (lām)
adj. lam·er, lam·est
Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible.
Marked by pain or rigidness.
adjective
noun
An old-fashioned, conventional person; square: and not worry about anybody naming me a lame/ not have been as quick to judge him as a lame (1950s+ Teenagers fr jazz musicians)
