Many ducks have made their way into our cultural linguistic landscape. How many of these duck-related phrases do you know?
1. An egg-laying mammal
2. Having no effect whatsoever
3. A bowling-like game
4. A child’s game involving tapping others on the head
5. A vulnerable target
6. A doomed person
7. A mixed drink containing champagne
8. A game of skimming rocks on the surface of the water
9. A phrase meaning “it’s just what it looks like”
10. A 1986 George Lucas –produced film about a feathered alien
11. Disney’s famous quacker
12. A common foil for Bugs Bunny
13. Hairdo of the 1950s
14. To have everything in order
15. Great; fine
16. A Marx Brothers movie; an easy task
17. An old-fashioned water-based punishment
18. An ineffectual person
Answers: 1. duck-billed platypus
2. like water off a duck’s back
3. duckpins
4. duck duck goose
5. sitting duck
6. dead duck
7. cold duck
8. ducks and drakes
9. if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck
10. Howard the Duck
11. Donald Duck
12. Daffy Duck
13. duck-tail
14. to have your ducks in a row
15. ducky
16. Duck Soup
17. ducking stool
18. lame duck |
