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dead man walking
noun
- a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
- informal.any person in a doomed or untenable situation, esp one about to lose his or her job
Example Sentences
“You can’t hide them flaws they got. You just a dead man walking,†one of the NBA’s most forward-facing voices said.
“You can’t hide them flaws they got. You just a dead man walking,†Barkley said.
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€
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.
Israel has called him a “dead man walking.â€
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