dead man walking

noun

1. a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
2. informal.
   any person in a doomed or untenable situation, esp one about to lose his or her job

Example Sentences

Alongside Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, he founded the Moratorium Campaign, an anti-death penalty effort.

From The Daily Beast

Just over a year ago, Romney was a political dead man walking.

From The Daily Beast

Their preferred 2016 nominee, Marco Rubio, looked a dead man walking.

From The Daily Beast

Politically, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is a dead man walking.

From The Daily Beast

They had just seen a dead man walking, had heard him talking, had spoken to him.

From Project Gutenberg

And yet would he believe me when I told him that I had actually seen the dead man walking there with his wife?

From Project Gutenberg