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单词 a duck of a
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a duck of a
b. Often a duck of a…; and applied to things as well as persons.
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1819 M. Wilmot Let. 26 Nov. (1935) 31 I shall presently throw my letter into the long drawer at the top of my duck of a secretaire.
1841 Punch 18 Sept. 112/1 If our remarks were made with an affectionate eye to the young ladies of the satin-album-loving school, we should assuredly style this ‘a duck of a picture’.
?1884 Rede's Sixteen String Jack (new ed.) i. ii Oh, isn't he a duck of a fellow?
1891 J. S. Farmer Slang (at cited word) A duck of a bonnet.
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