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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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 Magnoliasâ€; has appeared on the series “The Millers,†“The Good Wife†and “Mrs. Americaâ€; and has roles in such movies as “August: Osage County,†“Million Dollar Baby,†“The Hours,†“Dead Man Walking†and “Days of Thunder.â€

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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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Israel has called him a “dead man walking.â€

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