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

It was also the setting for the popular book and movie “Dead Man Walking.”

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“You can’t hide them flaws they got. You just a dead man walking,” one of the NBA’s most forward-facing voices said.

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“You can’t hide them flaws they got. You just a dead man walking,” Barkley said.

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She was in the original off-Broadway production of “Steel Magnolias”; has appeared on the series “The Millers,” “The Good Wife” and “Mrs. America”; and has roles in such movies as “August: Osage County,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “The Hours,” “Dead Man Walking” and “Days of Thunder.”

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The United States has reached the endpoint of a cruel economic and political system that resembles a dead man walking–a zombie politics that thrives on the exploitation of the working class, immigrants, the poor, dispossessed, and helpless children dying under the bombed-out rubble of state terrorism.

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