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like water off a duck's back
Idioms and Phrases
Readily and without apparent effect. For example, The scathing reviews rolled off him like water off a duck's back . This expression alludes to the fact that duck feathers shed water. [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
Now in its 19th series, criticism of The Apprentice falls "like water off a duck's back" these days, he said.
"It's like water off a duck's back really, the way he just sort of takes it all in his stride," sports psychologist and former women's world number one darts player Dr Linda Duffy told BBC Sport.
My club lose so often now though that a defeat is like water off a duck's back whatever the time and/or day.
The Kordas realise the interest in their family but you sense it's like water off a duck's back.
Merkel, however, took Trump's bloviations in stride — "like water off a duck's back" — pushing back with calm observations of fact.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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