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...
like <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...
<span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck</span> (uncountable) Alternative form of <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>....
flow (<span class="searchmatch">off</span>) like <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 like <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> like...
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>. like <span class="searchmatch">a</span> knife through butter Very naturally like <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, "like <span class="searchmatch">water</span> on <span class="searchmatch">a</span> goose." som vatten på en gås (simile, idiomatic) like <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...
ke daun keladi (simile) unheeded (of advice or criticism), like <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) like <span class="searchmatch">water</span> <span class="searchmatch">off</span> <span class="searchmatch">a</span> <span class="searchmatch">duck's</span> head (figurative) like <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...
rubber (“bounces <span class="searchmatch">off</span>”), not having accusations besmirch <span class="searchmatch">a</span> person Coordinate term: like <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> (of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> coating, of <span class="searchmatch">a</span> coated implement)...
spływać jak woda po kaczce) (intransitive, idiomatic) to be like <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,...