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if it quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck and looks like a duck, chances are it's a duckif something has all the attributes and appearances of being a certain thing, the probability exists that it is that thing.Rate it:

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black-on-blackA reference to interactions between black people.Rate it:

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black-on-blackA description of the colors of an automobile .Rate it:

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black-on-blackSomething that is invisible or intentionally obfuscated, such as warnings or fine print.Rate it:

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black-on-blackA description of the colors of an automobile.Rate it:

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black-on-blackInteractions that occur between black people, notably crime that is perpetrated by one black person against another.Rate it:

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black-on-blackA reference to interactions between black people .Rate it:

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all duck or no dinnerAll or nothing.Rate it:

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could eat the arse out of a low flying duckAlternative form of could eat the crotch out of a low flying duckRate it:

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duck outTo move or act so as to achieve avoidance, escape, or evasion.Rate it:

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could eat the crotch out of a low flying duckAm/are/is extremely hungry.Rate it:

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duck soupEasy, or a piece of cake.Rate it:

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quack like a duckTo appear to be exactly what one is.Rate it:

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dead duckOne who is in serious danger or trouble.Rate it:

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golden duckThe score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball faced.Rate it:

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tight as a duck's arseExtremely tight, mean, excessively thriftyRate it:

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break one's duckTo score one's first run in an innings.Rate it:

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like water off a duck's backWithout immediate or lasting effects.Rate it:

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duck outTo depart quickly or exit abruptly, especially in a manner which does not attract notice and before a meeting, event, etc. has concluded.Rate it:

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ay up me duckA generic greeting.Rate it:

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break one's duckTo do something for the first time.Rate it:

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could eat the crutch from a low flying duckAlternative form of could eat the crotch out of a low flying duckRate it:

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Dead DuckA ruined person; a person or plan that is certain to die or failRate it:

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dead duckA project that is doomed to failure from the start.Rate it:

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duck outTo 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:

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duck testfor application of common sense and/or intuition regardless of technical parameters.Rate it:

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Lame DuckAbout to retire, in the last days of his or her jobRate it:

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like a duck takes to waterVery naturally; without effort.Rate it:

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like a duck to waterAlternative form of like a duck takes to waterRate it:

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no duck no dinnerNo money to pay for food, then you go hungryRate it:

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odd duckAn unusual person, especially an individual with an idiosyncratic personality or peculiar behavioral characteristics.Rate it:

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Sitting DuckA person or thing that is considered vulnerable, to easily get attacked by somethingRate it:

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sitting duckAn obvious or unconcealed target.Rate it:

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take to something like a duck to waterto adapt to something naturally and effortlesslyRate it:

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black and whiteA type of giant cookie with icing on the top side: half white, half dark chocolate.Rate it:

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black and whiteA police patrol car.Rate it:

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black beetleUsed other than as an idiom: see black, beetle.Rate it:

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black don't crackPeople of African descent tend to wrinkle less with age than people with fairer skin.Rate it:

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black tieUsed other than as an idiom: see black, tie.Rate it:

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black widowvenomous spiderRate it:

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blackWithout light.Rate it:

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black ballStall, close ranks, make it impossible to make a break throughRate it:

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black gumA tree native to eastern North America, Nyssa sylvatica.Rate it:

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black manA (male) member of an ethnic group having dark pigmentation of the skin, typically of sub-Saharan African descent.Rate it:

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black over Bill's mother'sDescribing rain-bearing dark clouds on the horizon.Rate it:

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pot calling the kettle blackA situation in which somebody comments on or accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser has or shares.Rate it:

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black goldpetroleumRate it:

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black beetleThe Asiatic rhinoceros beetle, Oryctes rhinoceros, a pest of palm trees in tropical Asia.Rate it:

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in black and whiteHaving it displayed using shades of gray/gray rather than colour/color .Rate it:

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black sheepA nonconformist; an unusual or unconventional person.Rate it:

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