sitting target

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Triggered by a vision of an injured elk in his living room, Lewis takes us back to the ill-fated event: A stroke of dumb luck leads the venturesome youths to an encounter with a sitting target, a cluster of elk bulls.

From Los Angeles Times

Because vultures feed communally at a carcass, they are a sitting target for poachers, who can wipe out hundreds of birds at a time.

From The Guardian

But she can look back on a gritty, at times excellent campaign, correcting the impression she had been lumbered with as a sitting target on the clay of Roland Garros after four first-round exits in a row.

From The Guardian

Meanwhile, the public has worked itself up into an impotent fury in which our party democracy is a sitting target.

From The Guardian

Defence barrister Eleanor Laws QC said that Mr Bennell became a "sitting target" after he admitted child sex offences in the 1990s.

From BBC