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if it quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck and looks like a duck, chances are it's a duck	if something has all the attributes and appearances of being a certain thing, the probability exists that it is that thing.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
duck duck goose	A children's game where kids sit in a circle facing each other with their eyes closed. One child is designated "it" and walks around the outside of the circle saying "duck" as he/she touches each child's head. Finally, instead of saying "duck" the person who is it says "goose!" then runs forward around the circle and tries to sit down in the spot where the "goose" was sitting. The goal of the game is for the person who is "it" to sit down before the "goose" catches him/her. If he/she does sit down before being touched/tagged, then the "goose" becomes "it" and the process begins again. If the "goose" catches the person who was "it" then the person who was "it' is out of the game and the circle moves in closer/smaller until only one sitting winner remains.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
ce sont des phrases à perte d'haleine	Those are very long-winded sentences.	Rate it: (2.00 / 3 votes)
faire des phrases	To speak affectedly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
all duck or no dinner	All or nothing.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
duck out	To move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck	Am/are/is extremely hungry.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
duck soup	Easy, or a piece of cake.	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
quack like a duck	To appear to be exactly what one is.	Rate it: (3.50 / 2 votes)
dead duck	One who is in serious danger or trouble.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
golden duck	The score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball faced.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
tight as a duck's arse	Extremely tight, mean, excessively thrifty	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
break one's duck	To score one's first run in an innings.	Rate it: (2.00 / 2 votes)
like water off a duck's back	Without immediate or lasting effects.	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
duck out	To depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded.	Rate it: (1.00 / 2 votes)
ay up me duck	A generic greeting.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
break one's duck	To do something for the first time.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
could eat the crutch from a low flying duck	Alternative form of could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dead Duck	A ruined person; a person or plan that is certain to die or fail	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
dead duck	A project that is doomed to failure from the start.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
duck out	To depart quickly or exit abruptly by way of, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
duck test	for application of common sense and/or intuition regardless of technical parameters.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Lame Duck	About to retire, in the last days of his or her job	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
like a duck takes to water	Very naturally; without effort.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
like a duck to water	Alternative form of like a duck takes to water	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
no duck no dinner	No money to pay for food, then you go hungry	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
odd duck	An unusual person, especially an individual with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sitting Duck	A person or thing that is considered vulnerable, to easily get attacked by something	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
sitting duck	An obvious or unconcealed target.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
take to something like a duck to water	to adapt to something naturally and effortlessly	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
the fuck	Used as a shortened form of the common interrogative phrases.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
way out of a paper bag	A minimal level of competence or effectiveness, as used in phrases where one is unable to perform such.	Rate it: (4.33 / 6 votes)
elle fait la carpe pâmée (fam.)	She turns up the whites of her eyes; She pretends to be ill; She looks like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
on the uptake	In understanding or in the ability to absorb new information; especially in the phrases "quick on the uptake" and "slow on the uptake".	Rate it: (2.00 / 1 vote)
blind	Any device intended to conceal or hide; as, a duck blind.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
check your attitude (at the door)	The speaker is warning the listener that their attitude may have adverse effects and advising that the listener change their attitude. Adding "at the door" at the end of this phrases means to leave your attitude outside/don't bring that attitude in here	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
comment vas-tu… yau de poêle ?	Jeu de mots sur les phrases « comment vas-tu ? » et « tuyau de poêle ».	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
dad-blamed	euphemism for G** damned; used to add emphasis and/or show disgust or disdain; See dagnabbit in our definitions.com, and gosh darn, gosh darn it, doggone it, in phrases.com	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
dad-gum it	euphemism for G** damned; used to add emphasis and/or show disgust or disdain; See also: dagnabbit in our definitions.com, and dad-blamed, gosh darn, gosh darn it, doggone it, in phrases.com	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
dag nabbit	Incorrect spelling. See dagnabbit in our definitions.com, a euphemism for G** damn it; See also doggone it, dad-blamed, gosh darn and gosh darn it in phrases.com	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
dag nabbit	Incorrect spelling. See dagnabbit in our definitions.com, a euphemism for G** damn it; See also doggone it, dad-blamed, gosh darn and gosh darn it in phrases.com	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
doggone it	exclamation of frustration; euphemism for G** damn it; used for emphasis; See also dad-blamed, gosh darn, gosh darn it in phrases.com and dagnabbit in definitions.net	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flosculi, rhetorum pompa	fine, rhetorical phrases.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
fucking a right!	Absolutely! Phrases with similar meaning: "Does a bear sshit in the woods? "You bet your sweet ass!"	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
get down	To duck or take cover, usually to avoid harm. Commonly used as a caution or warning in the imperative.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
haec verba sunt (Ter. Phorm. 3. 2. 32)	these are mere empty phrases.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
les observations glissent sur lui comme sur une cuirasse	Blame slips off him as water off a duck’s back.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
loaded language	language using words, set phrases or idioms that have strong positive or negative connotations beyond their ordinary definitions.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
lucky duckling	Synonym of lucky duck	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
see you later alligator	a fun, rhyming way of saying goodbye, the response to which is "In a while, crocodile" (from another phrases.com entry)	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)