duck and drake
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of duck and drake
First recorded in 1575–85
Example Sentences
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They are the mandarin duck and drake of Morokoshi transplanted to Yotsuya.
From The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) by De Benneville, James S. (James Seguin)
"I feel like a duck and drake," she laughed to herself.
From Balloons by Bibesco, Elizabeth
Mourn, sooty coots, and speckled teals; Ye fisher herons, watching eels: Ye duck and drake, wi’ airy wheels Circling the lake; Ye bitterns, till the quagmire reels, Rair for his sake.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
“The bullet went duck and drake; I saw it.”
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
Nature, it seem’d, asham’d of her mistake, Would throw their land away at duck and drake.
From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.
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