Interesting little thing I heard about where the term "Lame Duck" comes from.
Woodsmen used to use the term "that Duck isn't worth the powder" as in gun powder. This was used referring to a sure looser. Later it was truncated to "Dead Duck".
Finally, when applied to politics, "dead" was thought too harsh (especially with all the assassinations) so "Lame Duck" came to be the tag line for a government that no one expected would accomplish anything.
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