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water off a duck's back
- To fail to catch on or make a mark: “The reporter's snide comments rolled off the candidate like water off a duck's back.”
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Now in its 19th series, criticism of The Apprentice falls "like water off a duck's back" these days, he said.
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"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.
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He said that criticism - including "the politics of noisy performance, the weak and cowardly fantasy of populism" - was "water off a duck's back" to him.
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My club lose so often now though that a defeat is like water off a duck's back whatever the time and/or day.
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“But that’s water off a duck’s back. One year you are the villain, then next year you are a hero.”
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