介绍:
1. Sitting duck
-If you stay on that hilltop you are going to be a sitting duck.
-The mayor was a sitting duck due to his unpopular position with education reform.
-If you park in front of a fire hydrant, you will be a sitting duck for getting ticketed.
Definition: someone vulnerable to attack
Etymology: Alludes to a duck floating on the water, not suspecting that it is the object of a hunter or predator.
2. Cash cow
-The tourism industry in Croatia was the cash cow for their economy.
-Apple's iPhone is their cash cow, because there will always be a market for it.
-The runway that got leased out to private jets became the airport's cash cow.
Definition: a business or a part of a business that always makes a lot of profit
Etymology: The term cash cow is a metaphor for a "dairy cow" used on farms to produce milk, offering a steady stream of income with little maintenance
3. On the chopping block
-Because the company had lost their cash cow, many employees were now on the shopping block.
-After one of the servants stole, both of the servant's head were on the chopping block.
-The news companies newspaper section was on the chopping block due to low sales.
Definition: in serious and threatening straits.
