clay pigeon Идиома
clay pigeon|clay|pigeon
n.,
slang,
informal 1. A popular target at practice shooting made of clay and roughly resembling a pigeon; an easy target that doesn't move.
All he can shoot is a clay pigeon. 2. A person who, like a clay pigeon in target practice, is immobilized or is in a sensitive position and is therefore easily criticized or otherwise victimized.
Poor Joe is a clay pigeon. 3. A task easily accomplished like shooting an immobile clay pigeon.
The math exam was a clay pigeon.
clay pigeon
clay pigeon A person easily duped or taken advantage of, as in
You're a clay pigeon for all of those telephone fund-raisers. The term alludes to the clay pigeon of trapshooting, which replaced the use of live birds in this sport in the 1860s. Its transfer to figurative use in the first half of the 1900s probably is explained by the much older slang use of
pigeon for “dupe.” Also see
fall guy.
clay pigeon
A actuality who is calmly exploited, deceived, or taken advantage of, abnormally due to actuality in a position of vulnerability. Likened to the adobe pigeons (small adobe discs) acclimated as targets in trapshooting. Primarily heard in US, South Africa. He was acclimated as a adobe pigeon by the mafia, who apple-pie money through his accounts.Learn more: clay, pigeonclay pigeon
A actuality calmly bamboozled or taken advantage of, as in You're a adobe pigeon for all of those blast fund-raisers. The appellation alludes to the adobe pigeon of trapshooting, which replaced the use of alive birds in this action in the 1860s. Its alteration to allegorical use in the aboriginal bisected of the 1900s apparently is explained by the abundant earlier argot use of pigeon for "dupe." Also see fall guy. Learn more: clay, pigeonclay pigeon
n. a believing person; a pigeon. (Underworld.) We charge a adobe pigeon to alter absorption from the snatch. Learn more: clay, pigeon