water off a duck's back
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"The nature of the insult was water off a duck's back," she writes.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025
The plot is thicker than water off a duck’s back.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 2, 2019
Grammer: If we were 20, we’d be thinking about what we’re trying to do to make the characters believable. but at this point, it’s sort of like water off a duck’s back.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2018
"It's water off a duck's back," said Kemp.
From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2013
Huldy was a drefful chipper sort o' gal; and work sort o' rolled off from her like water off a duck's back.
From Oldtown Fireside Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher
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