sitting target
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It took no time for the fight to spark into life as Dubois doubled up on his jab but it was clear that Usyk wasn't going to be a sitting target.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
It made him a bete noire of liberals and progressives and a sitting target for satirists such as Jon Stewart.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2016
“Obviously, Portugal is a sitting target if there is a Grexit,” said Edward Hugh, an economist and the author of “Is the Euro Crisis Really Over?” using a term that describes a Greek exit.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2015
To Watergate Investigative Reporter Bob Woodward, that made the nation's highest tribunal a "sitting target."
From Time Magazine Archive
Backing and coming ahead, we make little progress, but at least we present no sitting target.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by Bone, David W. (David William)
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