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like water off a duck's back en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, idiomatic, qualifier:simile) Without immediate or lasting effects.
    • "She combs me down with her tongue sometimes though, but that just slips off me like water off a duck's back." 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 18, in Rainbow Valley:
    • Scandal after scandal would break, but it would be like water off a duck's back; no heads rolled, and no one seemed particularly perturbed. 2009 January 2, Jan Espeut, “The honeymoon is over”, in Jamaica Gleaner, retrieved 20 Jan 2009:

Relateds

water off a duck's back · Teflon · like a duck takes to water

Translations (13)

nn prelle av som vatn på gåsa (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · af soos water op 'n eend se rug (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · vi như nước đổ đầu vịt (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · ms bagai mencurah air ke daun keladi (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · is eins og að skvetta vatni á gæs (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · nb prelle av som vann på gåsen (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · pl jak woda po gęsi (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · ru как с гу́ся вода́ (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · vi như nước đổ lá môn (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · pl jak po kaczce (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · vi như nước đổ lá khoai (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · cs jedním uchem tam, druhým ven (without effects; in a manner having no effect) · sv som vatten på en gås (without effects; in a manner having no effect)