dead duck

Noun

 * 1)  One who is in serious danger or trouble.
 * 2)  A project that is doomed to failure from the start.
 * 1)  A project that is doomed to failure from the start.

Translations

 * Catalan: ser home mort (to be a dead man)
 * Finnish: tuhoon tuomittu hanke
 * French:
 * Polish: skazany na porażkę
 * Russian:, (of a person, dead man),  (of a project)
 * Spanish: ser hombre muerto