dead man walkingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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dead man walking (plural dead men walking)

1. A condemned prisoner walking to a death chamber or other place of execution.
   • 1996, Stephen King, The Green Mile:

     It was Percy Wetmore who ushered Coffey onto the block, with the supposedly traditional cry of “Dead man walking! Dead man walking here!”

2. (figurative) Someone who is soon to die.
   • 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 231:

     "So, arrest me," Cummings said. "The fuck do I care? I'm a dead man walking."

   • 2026 May 6, Nicholas Muhoro, “Anatoli Bugorski Survived a 1978 Proton Beam to the Head and Kept Working Like Nothing Happened”, in Skip Boring‎, archived from the original on 11 May 2026:

     Doctors and scientists considered him a dead man walking. Having calculated that the exposure level was actually hundreds of times the fatal threshold, doctors believed Bugorski would eventually experience total nervous system collapse.

3. (figurative) Someone who is about to face an unavoidable loss (though the person may not realize it yet).
4. (slang, meteorology) A multivortex tornado typically appearing in the form of a human figure walking.

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• lame duck

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