<span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> (simile, colloquial, idiomatic) Without immediate or lasting effects. 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 18, in Rainbow Valley:...
From the idea that <span class="searchmatch">water</span> rolls easily <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> and does not penetrate the <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> feathers. <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> (uncountable) Something potentially...
flow (<span class="searchmatch">off</span>) <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> the <span class="searchmatch">back</span> of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> goose”. Compare English <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span>. valua kuin vesi hanhen selästä (simile) to roll <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">like</span> water...
something like a duck takes to water, take to something as <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck</span> takes to <span class="searchmatch">water</span>. <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> knife through butter Very naturally <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span>...
Literally, "<span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> on <span class="searchmatch">a</span> goose." som vatten på en gås (simile, idiomatic) <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> Kritiken rinner av honom som vatten på en gås...
air ke daun keladi (simile) unheeded (of advice or criticism), <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> bagai hujan jatuh ke pasir bagai mencurah garam ke laut air di...
ʔɗow˨˩˦ ʔɗəw˨˩ jɨt̚˨˩˨] như nước đổ đầu vịt (literal) <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> head (figurative) <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span>. Synonym: như nước đổ lá khoai...
accusations besmirch a person Coordinate term: like water <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> (of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> coating, of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> coated implement) Synonym of slippery, slippy, or non-stick...
spływać jak woda po kaczce) (intransitive, idiomatic) to be <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> spłynąć jak woda po kaczce in Wielki słownik języka polskiego...
spłynąć jak woda po kaczce) (intransitive, idiomatic) to be <span class="searchmatch">like</span> <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> <span class="searchmatch">back</span> spływać jak woda po kaczce in Wielki słownik języka polskiego...