don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks
Alternative form of don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs.
ducks
/dʌks/
noun 3
Collocations
4ADJ.
cute, delicious, near, spotless, tight, white, wild, young
VERB + DUCKS
aim, don't, eat, feed, go, keep, raises, see
DUCKS + NOUN
geese, goats, home, lake, pond, sheep
PREP.
about, across, among, on
Definitions
noun
1
A pair of twos.
noun
1
Dear (used as a pet name).
Hello ducks, how are you today?
noun
1
The light trousers worn by sailors in hot climates.
His spotless white ducks set tight about the hips, and hang loosely at the bottom, just allowing the tips of a pair of patent-leather pumps to peep out from beneath their ample breadth.
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Idioms & Phrases
have one's ducks in a row
To be organized; to have one's affairs in order; specifically, to have a multiperson effort coordinated towards the exact same goal.
Wouldn't it be nice to have our ducks in a row and not have to search for the papers every time we needed them?
ducks and drakes
A pastime of throwing flat stones across water so as to make them bounce off the surface.
A kind of sport or play with an oister shell or stone throwne into the water, and making circles yer it sinke, etc. It is called a ducke and a drake, and a halfe-penie cake.
hunt where the ducks are
To seek opportunities or results in situations or places where they are most likely to be found.
In determining the content of his telecast [Richard] Nixon had, in the vernacular, chosen to hunt where the ducks were, i.e., he made his pitch to that vast television audience whi
line up one's ducks
To organize one's affairs so that one is ready to act efficiently.
"Senator Allen was one reason he made up his mind to go to Washington. He'd like to get some of the windbags out of our way and line up our ducks."
Example Bank
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Hello ducks, how are you today?
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His spotless white ducks set tight about the hips, and hang loosely at the bottom, just allowing the tips of a pair of patent-leather pumps to peep out from beneath their ample breadth.
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Ducks were swimming about on the pond.
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There's a wildlife preserve on the river in town, if you're watching ducks that would be a good place.
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Among wild ducks, it seems there are homosexual necrophiliacs.
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If we stay here, we'll be sitting ducks.
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i Register
In some senses, ducks is marked as slang, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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