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easy victim

noun as in sitting duck

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Shah Rukh Khan, the popular star of “Pathaan,” who at 57 toned his abs to play the titular action hero, just had too wide and crosscutting an appeal to become another easy victim.

“Bitcoin was an easy victim here,” said Kaveh Madani, a former deputy head of Iran’s Department of Environment, adding that “decades of mismanagement” have left a growing gap between Iran’s energy supply and demand.

The proposed replacement, featuring a round field of stars, was widely derided as the “pizza flag,” making it an easy victim of the protect-our-heritage arguments still heard today.

“I’m an easy victim for American media,” Mr. Malkevich said.

‘Though other folks besides hobbits ask riddles, and of much the same sort. And hobbits don’t cheat. Gollum meant to cheat all the time. He was just trying to put poor Bilbo off his guard. And I daresay it amused his wickedness to start a game which might end in providing him with an easy victim, but if he lost would not hurt him.’

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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