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box of fluffy ducks en · NOUN
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(New-Zealand) Used to express that everything is good.
He thought he was doing well until Ice looked up from his inspection of the Leyland 680 engine and said casually, “Everything okay? You seem edgy.” “Box of fluffy ducks.”
2013, Karina Bliss, Jeannie Watt, A Prior Engagement/Once A Champion, →ISBN:Oh, good, lad, just a box of fluffy ducks. What brings you in here today?
2014, Colin Belk, Heads I Win Tails You Loose, →ISBN, page 110:Even the big houses are shifting, here today and gone tomorrow, cut in half, jacked up on a truck (the speculators happy as a box of fluffy ducks) and carted off to the country.
2004, Bernadette Hall, The Merino Princess: Selected Poems, →ISBN, page 59:Roddy hugged her and told her not to worry, he was “a box of fluffy ducks,” as he liked to say to mean he was fine.
2016, Ariel Teal Toombs, Colt Baird Toombs, Rowdy: The Roddy Piper Story, →ISBN:
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happy as a box of birds