sitting duck
n. Informal.
An easy target or victim.
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An easy target, as in If you park in front of a fire hydrant, you're a sitting duck for a ticket. This term alludes to the ease with which a hunter can shoot a duck that remains in one spot, in contrast to one in flight. [First half of 1900s]

The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a defenseless victim
Synonym: easy mark
Sitting Ducks is an iconic lithograph created by Michael Bedard in the late 1970s. It depicts a literal interpretation of the idiom "sitting duck". Three ducks are relaxing in the sun on white chairs by the poolside, one looks up and notices two bullet holes in the wall.
Bedard then went on to create an entire series of "Sitting Ducks" related lithographs, which culminated in a children's book and a cartoon series.
Bedard's 1998 book, Sitting Ducks (ISBN 0-399-22847-0) has the plot that crocodiles hatch ducks in a "duck factory", then send them to Ducktown, where the ducks live an idyllic life, encouraged by billboards to fatten up. The crocodiles presumably eat the ducks once they are fat. One duck is befriended by a crocodile, who lets him know that if only the Ducktown residents wouldn't get fat, they could fly away and avoid being eaten.
Sitting Ducks' cartoon. It proved to be a big hit with the European children's show market, along with gaining the usual merchandising gig, toys, clothing, etc. Sitting Ducks also proved to be popular in Japan when it debuted there in the first quarter of 2000. It was not until two years later, in 2000 that Universal Studios brought the show to America, debuting on Cartoon Network in the first quarter of 2002.
The show focuses in a town called Ducktown, on a duck named Bill, and his best friend Aldo, a huge alligator from the neighboring town of Swampwood. Seeing as how ducks are favorite snacks of the alligators there, Bill and Aldo's friendship is rather unusual. The pair usually end up in varied situations and adventures.
LSP and Asobo Studios picked up the rights from Universal Studios to create games for Sitting Ducks back in 2003. The PC and GBA versions were released on March 2, 2004, with the PSone (April) and PS2 (July) versions following. An Xbox version was also planned, but was quietly cancelled. The game was not a success, but is still sold.
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