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to something like a duCk to water Bob's baby daughter walked steadily and didn't
totter She talked fluently and didn't stutter She took to it like a duck to water
Meaning 'Take to something like a duck to water' means to learn something very
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
1998 Spectator At some point in his second and final term, every president
becomes a lame duck: as the man himself matters less, so does the office. take to
something like a duck to water take to something very readily. 1960 C. Day Lewis
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Speaking of Animals:
A Dictionary of Animal Metaphors
LIKE A DUCK TO WATER to take to something like a duck to water. To adjust to a
new activity with little or no difficulty. Source: DUCK. WNNCD: O.E. Ducks are
aquatic birds, so it would be expected that they would adapt well to water.
Robert Allen Palmatier, 1995
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
... lame ducks who need help. water off a duck's back without making the slightest
impression All her scoldings was like water off a duck 's back to her impudent son
. take to something like a duck to water adopt oneself to a new situation without ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms
1998Spectator At some point in his second and final term, every president
becomes a lame duck: as the man himself matters less, so does the office. take to
something like a duck to water take to something very readily. 1960 C. Day ...
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Anglické obrazné fráze
a idiomy - English as easy as ABC
to take to something like a duck to water – snadno se vypořádat s novou situací,
mít přirozený talent The City stockbroker decided to give up his job and start an
ostrich farm in the north of England. His friends thought he was mad but he took
to ...
Water off a duckis back: have no effect or impression Talking about morals to him
is like water off a duck's back, we only waste our energy! Take to something like a
duck to water easily adaptable He took to swimming like a duck to water within ...
'ill J? (it * to take to (something) like a duck to water Bmmm^±^ (ttfltft?** ; $P&{#7k
(Todd is now fifty years old without getting married; he is not the sort of man who
lakes to matrimony like a duck to water] HftR£A3I+ftfl<)ft duck2 toduckoutof ...
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General Knowledge of English Literature
To take to something like a duck to water—to adapt oneself to a new situation
without any conscious effortordifficulty. To play ducksand drakeswith one's
money—to take unjustifiable risks with one's money, to throw it away. Goose To
cook ...
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Dictionary of St. Lucian Creole
... to take to something like a duck to water, natiwelman, son pies difikilte; to score
a duck (in cricket), pa fepiespwen; to play ducks and drakes with one's money,
jett lajan pa finet [gaspiyt] lajan); wild duck, kanna sovaj; v.,plonje an dlo; bese tet
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Jones E. Mondesir, Lawrence D. Carrington, 1992
