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单词 to break one's duck
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to break one's duck('s egg)
d. Cricket. to break one's duck('s egg): to score one's first run in an innings, thus avoiding a ‘duck’ (duck n.1 7).
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to break one's duck('s egg)1867
1867 G. H. Selkirk Guide to Cricket Ground ii. 26 If he makes one run he has ‘broken his duck's egg’.
1900 W. A. Bettesworth Walkers of Southgate 19 Parr broke his duck, but could get no further, being bowled by Atkinson for one run.
1912 A. Brazil New Girl at St. Chad's vii. 112 Her first ball, being a wide, served to increase the confidence Honor had felt in breaking her duck.
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