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May 9, 2007 This week's theme Expressions coined after the names of birds This week's words stormy petrel kibitz clay pigeon jaywalk catbird seat Read it today Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg clay pigeon This week's theme: expressions coined after the names of birds. clay pigeon (klay PIJ-uhn) noun Someone in a situation vulnerable to be taken advantage of. [After a piece of baked clay, called a clay pigeon, thrown into the air as a flying target in shooting practice.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "Scott Layden is a clay pigeon in a media-intensive situation in which he's blamed for an approach that was carved in stone long before he arrived." Mark Heisler; Garden Party Lights Go Out; Los Angeles Times; Feb 7, 2003. X-Bonus What I stand for is what I stand on. -Wendell Berry, farmer, author (1934- )

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