Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.'

家主就动怒，对仆人说：‘快出去，到城里大街小巷，领那贫穷的、残废的、瞎眼的、瘸腿的来。’

youdao

And he answered, my Lord, o king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go to the king; because thy servant is lame.

他回答说，我主我王，仆人是瘸腿的。

youdao

I know it might sound lame, but my alarm clock somehow didn't go off this morning.

我知道那可能听起来有点扯，但我的闹钟今天早上不晓得怎么搞的没有响。

youdao

Working 2400-2600 billable hours a year out of them before shuffling them off to kinder, gentler employers when they go lame, making less money but enjoying life more?

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But the phrase had been in earlier use in England in the 1700s, where brokers on the London Stock Exchange called you a lame duck if you tried to go on trading securities after you had failed to make good on settlement.

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Yet it makes no sense to go for long-term tax policy with a lame-duck Congress, especially one more oppositional than the new one coming in January.

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