Does "A DEAD DUCK" in the context below sounds all right?
If I lend the money to a person and I am dead sure that this person won't pay me back, but still just to support her I lent her the money... Could I say (when telling this story to someone else) that "I knew that was A DEAD DUCK from the beginning but she was so poor that I couldn't have done another way"?Or instead of "a dead duck" it would sound really good if I say "a lost cause" - "I knew that was A LOST CAUSE from the beginning"?
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Out of the two options given I would say use "A lost cause"
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You could say :
I gave her the money out of the goodness of my own heart.. I knew she was to poor to ever be able to pay it back.
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Definitely say "A lost cause"... dead duck is almost never used except to describe a powerless politician
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