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duck English

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duck

A duck is a bird that swims and says "quack!". It has a flat bill and webbed feet. We saw three ducks in the park lake. Sound of ducks: File:Ducks landing in water.ogg Duck refers to the meat that comes from a duck. We just had duck for dinner. In a game of cricket, if a person scores duck, they scored zero runs.

duck

If you duck, you lower your head so that you do not get hit by something. Remember to duck when the boat goes under the bridge. When you duck a task, you avoid doing it.

duck

to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away Before he could duck, another stone struck him small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs submerge or plunge suddenly a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave; used for clothing and tents flesh of a duck (domestic or wild) (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman (= dip) dip into a liquid He dipped into the pool (= evade, skirt, dodge) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) He dodged the issue she skirted the problem They tend to evade their responsibilities he evaded the questions skillfully

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Conjugation duck conjugation

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duck · verb

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Simple sentences

It looks like a duck.
He went duck hunting.
The duck disappeared.
Do you want to buy a duck?
Tom went duck hunting.
Watch out! A duck!
Tom had roasted duck for lunch and he is sick now.
Can you tell a duck from a goose?
Don't try to duck out early. Where's your sense of responsibility?
We ate Peking duck in the Chinese restaurant.
The businessman is trying to keep his people on the go by keeping a stiff upper lip, but they are just acting like a dying duck in a thunderstorm.
The cow moos, the rooster crows, the pig oinks, the duck quacks, and the cat meows.
I am aiming at that duck.
Have you ever walked like a duck?
I love my tiger duck. He is quiet, but loyal.
He walks like a duck.
In the middle of a pond on a tiny island is a charming little duck house.
Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.
Like water off a duck's back.
It's duck soup for a girl of easy virtue to find a new man.
It is duck soup for a carpenter to construct a chicken coop for his son.
Duck!
It's like water on the duck's back.
Where is the rubber duck?
My son's rubber duck is yellow.
I know how to tell a duck from a goose.

Movie subtitles

A dead duck.
Why a duck?
It's deep water, that's why a duck.
That's why a duck. Look, rube.
I no catch on to why a duck.
Yes, everything except why a duck.
He's a dear old duck.
And one duck egg.
Nice old duck, isn't he?
Lord love a duck, miss.
Come to my place for eggnogs and breakfast. and maybe later we can duck the women and play some golf.
I'll duck in the other room.
I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters.
You're a funny kind of a duck, but I like you.
I don't know. He's a dear old duck.
Was that you or the duck?
If it was you, I'm with the duck.
You'd better tell him that Betty went duck-hunting and won't get back until late.
I thought. Betty has gone duck-hunting and won't be home until late.
She talks to you Iike water off a duck's back.
I've been trying to duck them, but they finally caught me.
Let's duck.
You, duck out that way.
All right. Why a duck?
Why a duck? Why a duck?
It's deep water. That's why a duck.
Hey, you little duck!
Hey, there he is, the little duck.
Where's my love-a-duck?
Duck soup.

News and current affairs

While a post-election, lame-duck session of Congress will address the fiscal cliff, the deep differences between Republicans and Democrats on taxes and spending remain wide and difficult to bridge.
JERUSALEM - The resumption of peace talks between Israel and Syria after eight years of saber-rattling is not a diversion from the political troubles of Israel's lame-duck prime minister.
Little wonder, then, that few Americans believe that what walks like a duck and quacks like a duck is actually the phoenix of recovery.
It took some time before the British came to understand that since President Jacques Chirac is a beleaguered lame-duck President, who will remain in office but not in power until 2007, he is in no position to agree to any such bargain.
But the round of peacemaking that America has recently embarked upon not only comes too late in the political life of a lame-duck president who has been defeated at home and abroad; it is also ill-conceived and unconvincing.
Should Bush, a lame duck president with little support at home and less abroad, now be allowed to appoint the next World Bank president?
For one thing, it makes the President a lame duck sometime in his second term.
However, the fate of Bush's friend, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, shows that lame-duck status can occur even without a constitutional term limit - indeed, without a written constitution at all.
Now a widow, she is exposed to the lame-duck syndrome, since she can't be re-elected again.
The charge of currency manipulation is nothing but a foil for the US to duck responsibility for fixing America's saving problem.
All of this suggests that, whether in the lame-duck congressional session following the elections or in the first few months of the new Congress, US politicians will likely dismantle the fiscal cliff.
In the short term, countries may be able to duck their global responsibilities, but the threat posed by events beyond their borders cannot be kept at bay forever.
It has become clear that the House Republicans will steadfastly refuse to vote for any increases in tax rates during the current lame-duck congressional session.
The current lame duck Duma, despite being dominated by communists, became more effective near the end of its tenure.
Matters were not helped when the Czech government lost a confidence vote midway through its six-month presidency of the European Union, leaving a lame duck European Commission.
He may decide that it is too difficult, in which case he will be a lame duck prime minister, condemned to serve out the three years remaining in Labour's current term with no hope of winning the next election.
There is no small irony in the fact that on November 15, America's lame duck president, the unilateralist George W. Bush, is hosting a multilateral conference to discuss reshaping the global economic system.

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