Powerless individual, male unfortunately with nothing (4,4)
I believe the answer is:
lame duck
'powerless individual' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'male unfortunately with nothing' is the wordplay.
'unfortunately' is an anagram indicator (a bad or unfortunate spelling).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'nothing' becomes 'duck' (duck means zero in cricket).
'male' with letters rearranged gives 'lame'.
'lame'+'duck'='LAME DUCK'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for lame duck that I've seen before include "Ineffectual type" , "Failing company" , "Ineffectual person or thing" , "Limping water-bird, a government set to go say" , "bankrupt" .)