sitting target

It took no time for the fight to spark into life as Dubois doubled up on his jab but it was clear that Usyk wasn't going to be a sitting target.

One boy late for class was locked out of his classroom and struggled to get back inside, out in the hallway where he’s been taught that he is a sitting target, knocking on the door, trying to convince his teacher asking “Who is it? Who is it?” that it was Zach, and not a gunman, my colleague Dan Morse reported.

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.

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

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.