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The Idiom : be duck soup (American, informal),to be very easy to do
Sample Sentence : Winning your case in court ought to be duck soup.
Turkish Equivalence: bebek işi
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The Idiom : be (like) water off a duck's back, if criticism is water off a duck's back to someone, it has no effect on them at allwithout any effect, completely ineffectually, without any influence
Sample Sentence : He's always being told he's lazy and incompetent, but it's just water off a duck's back to him.
Turkish Equivalence:
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The Idiom : dead duck, something or someone that is not successful or useful
Sample Sentence : The project was a dead duck from the start due to a lack of funding
Turkish Equivalence: boş gezenin boş kalfası
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The Idiom : ducking and diving (informal),if you spend your time ducking and diving, you are involved in many different activities, especially ones which are not honest
Sample Sentence : 'What do you do for a living?' 'This and that, ducking and diving.
Turkish Equivalence: çamura batmak,
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The Idiom : get your ducks in a row (American, informal),to organize things well
Sample Sentence : The government talks about tax changes but they won't fix a date or an amount - they just can't get their ducks in a row
Turkish Equivalence: işleri yoluna koymak
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The Idiom : 1-a lame duck(mainly American) , a person or company that is in trouble and needs help
2-a lame duck is a person or organization that is in serious difficulties and that needs help in order to survive
Sample Sentence : In under two years, it was transformed from a state-owned lame duck into a successful company.
Turkish Equivalence: köşeye sıkışmak, baltayı taşa vurmak, başı darda kalmak
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The Idiom : lame-duck (mainly American) ,a lame duck - someone, especially an elected official, who cannot influence events any more, often because their job is going to end soon
Sample Sentence : Having lost control of Congress, he was in danger of becoming a lame-duck president.
Turkish Equivalence: iflas etmek
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The Idiom : a sitting duck, something or someone that is easy to attack or criticize
Sample Sentence : Unarmed policemen walking the streets late at night are sitting ducks.
Turkish Equivalence: tetikte beklemek, barut fıçısı
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The Idiom : take to something like a duck to water,to learn how to do something very quickly and to enjoy doing it.
Sample Sentence : Sue just took to motherhood like a duck to water.He's taken to his new school like a duck to water.
Turkish Equivalence: leb demeden leblebiyi anlamak
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The Idiom : duck out (of somewhere),to leave a place quickly and without being noticed
Sample Sentence : The press was waiting for us in front of the hospital, so we ducked out a side door into the car.
Turkish Equivalence: toz olmak, kaybolmak
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The Idiom : have your ducks in a row, to organize things well
Sample Sentence : I thought Mike was extremely smart and always had his ducks in a row.
Turkish Equivalence: işleri yoluna koymak
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The Idiom : as a duck takes to water,Very naturally; without effort
Sample Sentence : The little boy started to swim just as a duck takes to water
Turkish Equivalence: tereyağından kıl çeker gibi
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The Idiom : as easy as duck soup, very easy, requiring no effort
Sample Sentence : Convincing the man to buy the car was as easy as duck soup
Turkish Equivalence: bebek işi
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The Idiom : lovely weather for ducks, rainy wheather
Sample Sentence : I commented to the wet letter carrier that it was lovely weather for ducks today.
Turkish Equivalence: bardaktan boşalırcasına yağmak
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The Idiom : ugly duckling, an ugly or plain child (who grows up to be pretty)
Sample Sentence : The girl was an ugly duckling when she was a child but now she is quite beautiful
Turkish Equivalence: çirkin ördek yavrusu
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The Idiom : break duck, If you break your duck, you do something for the first time.
Sample Sentence : I will play gumbling breaking my duck
Turkish Equivalence:
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The Idiom : duck down, hiding somewhere place out of sight, conceal, cover up; keep secret; conceal oneself
Sample Sentence : Soldier! Duck down or you ll die!!
Turkish Equivalence: gözden kaybolmak
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The Idiom : Lord love a duck, An exclamation used when nothing else will fit. Often fitting when one is stunned or dismayed
Sample Sentence : Lord love a duck... that alien just gone and blew up our truck
Turkish Equivalence: işleri yolunda olmamak
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The Idiom : ducky,(slang) wonderful, very good
Sample Sentence : The win is ducky for Manchester United.
Turkish Equivalence: paha biçilmez
sources;
babylon english dictionaey
chambers dictionary of idioms
Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms © Cambridge University Press 1998
Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms © Cambridge University Press 2003
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/duck
http://www.idiomsite.com/
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/search.php?q=duck
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