lame duck

"It is unfortunate that Olmert, regardless of how nice he was… was a lame duck," Husseini says, "and therefore, we will go nowhere with this."

Even before his martial law declaration, Yoon had been reduced to a lame duck leader as the opposition party held the majority in parliament.

As Trump crosses the line from ignorant bombast to dangerous, Fox News will eventually have to abandon him, given his lame duck status.

I think in a way he's already a lame duck.

They have a whole lot on their plate with a tiny margin and an aging lame duck leader who seems to be more interested in playing golf than being a full-time president.