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lame

If you are lame you are not able to walk well because of a problem with one's feet or legs. Because I broke my leg and it's in a cast, I'm going to be lame for a while. If it is lame it is not convincing or believable. He had a really lame excuse for missing the birthday party. Something that is lame is not cool, funny, interesting, fun, or relevant. He kept telling these lame jokes all night. That party was lame, so we ditched it.

lame

a fabric interwoven with threads of metal she wore a gold lame dress (= feeble) pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness a feeble excuse a lame argument (= square) someone who doesn't understand what is going on (= cripple) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg The accident has crippled her for life (= crippled, game) disabled in the feet or legs a crippled soldier a game leg

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Simple sentences

I don't want to be lame; I want to be cool!!
A lame cat is more valued than a fast horse when the palace is full of mice.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
He was lame after the fall.
The next morning the veterinary-that is, the animal doctor-declared that he would be lame for the rest of his life.
The blind laugh at the lame.
I don't want to be lame, I want to be cool!!
That's lame.
That pick-up line is really lame.
That's a lame excuse for giving up the work.
Who's that lame boy?
That's a lame excuse.
Tom is lame in his right foot.

Movie subtitles

A strange hunter, this lame monk whom the Lt. General seemed fated to meet in the most unlikely circumstances.
Must have been lame.
All right, Hercules, we'll go and see if my horse is lame.
Hey, this guy Ryan's pretty lame.
Lame horse.
Im all but lame from the bite on my leg!
Mine's lame. I'm riding yours.
I was riding behind the Heights on the moors, and my horse went lame.
Oh, but my horse is lame.
My dear, your horse is not lame, and it never was.
You're certainly a sight for lame peepers.
His neck is broken, crippled and distorted. lame and sick from the bullets your brother fired into me.
He was lame, and he was killed.
Dammit, what does he know? Like a lame horse.
Bouncy castles are lame.
All those lame cracks won't help you any if I come back and find out you've been annoying her in any way.
But a lame duck comes along and you become totally passionate!
The Court of Miracles where the blind can see and the lame can walk.
I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!
That old mule of yours is getting pretty lame, ain't she?
His horse went lame.
Believe me, gentlemen. A lame goat takes no siesta.
And you no longer lame my favorite horse. Sam has never forgiven the.
I left him lame and Dad thought that would have to kill him.
That's a real lame excuse. We hear that one twenty times a day.
A crippled girl who thought herself fortunate to be lame.
UNFORTUNATELY, THERE ARE A GREAT MANY MEN IN PARIS WHO ARE LAME.
I was lame, hunchbacked, and crooked in one eye.
I'm also a hunchback, lame and crooked in one eye.
I near fell over when she stepped into a cab.. beautiful and lame.
Lame? How lame?
A beautiful blond, lame.
She looks lame. Take her out to pasture.
Lame its suitcases.
That's lame for a stimulus.

News and current affairs

He has made no efforts at economic reform during his term and now seeks to blame the ECB for Italy's lame economic performance.
While a post-election, lame-duck session of Congress will address the fiscal cliff, the deep differences between Republicans and Democrats on taxes and spending remain wide and difficult to bridge.
JERUSALEM - The resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria after eight years of saber-rattling is not a diversion from the political troubles of Israel's lame-duck prime minister.
It took some time before the British came to understand that since President Jacques Chirac is a beleaguered lame-duck President, who will remain in office but not in power until 2007, he is in no position to agree to any such bargain.
Ignore all the lame excuses about the difficulties of assessing conflicting intelligence.
But the round of peacemaking that America has recently embarked upon not only comes too late in the political life of a lame-duck president who has been defeated at home and abroad; it is also ill-conceived and unconvincing.
The bad news is that all three politicians are lame ducks unlikely to undertake the reforms Europe so badly needs before their final goodbyes.
Should Bush, a lame duck president with little support at home and less abroad, now be allowed to appoint the next World Bank president?
For one thing, it makes the President a lame duck sometime in his second term.
However, the fate of Bush's friend, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, shows that lame-duck status can occur even without a constitutional term limit - indeed, without a written constitution at all.
Now a widow, she is exposed to the lame-duck syndrome, since she can't be re-elected again.
The follow-up summits were lame.
All of this suggests that, whether in the lame-duck congressional session following the elections or in the first few months of the new Congress, US politicians will likely dismantle the fiscal cliff.
It has become clear that the House Republicans will steadfastly refuse to vote for any increases in tax rates during the current lame-duck congressional session.
The current lame duck Duma, despite being dominated by communists, became more effective near the end of its tenure.
Matters were not helped when the Czech government lost a confidence vote midway through its six-month presidency of the European Union, leaving a lame duck European Commission.
He may decide that it is too difficult, in which case he will be a lame duck prime minister, condemned to serve out the three years remaining in Labour's current term with no hope of winning the next election.
There is no small irony in the fact that on November 15, America's lame duck president, the unilateralist George W. Bush, is hosting a multilateral conference to discuss reshaping the global economic system.

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