bombay duck
A member of the Bombay regiments of the East India Company's army.
Ducks & geese · Vịt ngỗng 138
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bún măng vịt
(noun) Vietnamese rice vermicelli duck noodle soup with bamboo shoots, garnished with shredded cabbage, thin slices of yellow onions, green onions and a wedge of lemon. Ginger fish sauce (nước mắm gừng) may be served as dipping sauce for the duck meat slices.
chance the ducks
To take a risk.
chân vịt
(noun) a duck foot
could eat the crotch out of a low flying duck
Am/are/is extremely hungry.
don't teach your grandmother how to milk ducks
Alternative form of don't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs.
Donald Duck
Donald Trump.
duck and dive
Use ingenuity to deal with a situation.
duck butter
Sweat, smegma, or semen found on or around the penis, testicles, or perineum.
duck dinner
Dishonorable discharge.
duck fart
A sound made when a stone is thrown into the water where the water breaks twice creating a longer sounding "plop".
duck shoot
Something very easy; a piece of cake.
duck snort
Synonym of duck fart
duck's guts
A difficult or awkward situation, trouble.
ducks
A pair of twos.
field-lane duck
A baked sheep's head.
gan ngỗng béo
(noun) foie gras
gander month
One of the later months of a pregnancy, when the pregnant woman cannot engage in sexual intercourse and her partner might be expected to seek it elsewhere.
get one's ducks in a row
To become well prepared for a desired outcome.
goose
A silly person.
goose is cooked
All chance of success is gone; now you're in trouble.
goose up
To take steps to make something appear more attractive or compelling.
greenwich goose
A Greenwich pensioner.
hai người đàn bà và một con vịt thành cái chợ
women are typically loud, talkative, prone to nagging and gossiping
hột vịt lộn
(noun) an egg containing a developing duck embryo
if it looks like a duck
Ellipsis of if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
in more shit than a Werribee duck
In trouble; suffering great difficulties.
Jemmy Ducks
A man employed on a ship to look after the poultry.
lame duck
A person who cannot fulfill their contracts.
like a dying duck in a thunderstorm
Looking hopelessly sad and dejected.
loose as a goose
Very loose (in various senses).
mud duck
An unattractive woman.
nghề ngỗng
(noun) occupation; job (i.e. some shady business)
ngỗng
(noun) goose
như nước đổ đầu vịt
like water off a duck's back.
Paddy's Goose
The White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.
quack like a duck
To appear to be exactly what one is.
rau chân vịt
(noun) spinach
rubber duck
An inflatable boat.
ruptured duck
The Honorable Service Lapel Button, a military award bearing the image of an eagle.
sauce for the goose
Synonym of what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
step on a duck
To break wind.
take to something like a duck to water
To learn or adapt to something new naturally and easily.
thú mỏ vịt
(noun) platypus
tight as a duck's arse
Extremely tight; mean; excessively thrifty.
tight as a duck's ass
Extremely tight (in various senses: secure, stingy, etc.).
tin vịt
(noun) canard, hoax
trứng khôn hơn vịt
the egg is smarter than the duck
trứng ngỗng
(noun) goose egg
trứng vịt lộn
(noun) egg containing a developing duck embryo
Vua Tin Vịt
(noun) the VTV
vịt
(noun) duck (aquatic bird of the family Anatidae)
vịt bầu
(noun) one of two Vietnamese breeds of duck
vịt giời
(noun) Northern Vietnam form of vịt trời (“wigeon”)
vịt lộn
(noun) ellipsis of hột vịt lộn or trứng vịt lộn
vịt trời
(noun) a wigeon
vịt xiêm
A Muscovy duck — the Southern word; Northerners say ngan.
vờ vịt
(verb) to pretend; to play dumb
what's good for the goose is good for the gander
Literally, what is good for a female goose is equally good for a male goose (gander); or, what is good for a woman should be equally good for a man.
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
If something is acceptable for one person, it is acceptable for another (often of the opposite gender).
wild goose chase
A frustrating or lengthy undertaking that accomplishes little.
ông nói gà, bà nói vịt
he said, she said
a lame duck
A stock-jobber or dealer who will not, or cannot, pay his losses. He has to "waddle out of the alley like a lame duck.
a wild goose never laid a tame egg
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
all duck or no dinner
a situation where one must commit fully to succeed
all your swans are geese
All your fine Eromises or expectations have proved illacious. "Hope told a flattering tale." The converse, AH your geese are swans, means all your children are paragons, and whatever you do is in your own eyes superlative work.
Bombay Duck
A fish, the bummalo, which, is dried and eaten with curries.
bombay ducks
In the East India Company’s army the Bombay regiments were so designated. The name is now given to a dried fish (bummelow), much eaten by natives and Europeans in Western India.—Anglo-Indian.
break one's duck
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
chân le chân vịt
To have one's feet in two different boats
cook someone's goose
to ruin someone's plans or chances
dead duck
A person or thing that is doomed or hopeless
don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
Don't destroy a source of benefit or advantage
duck
A lame duck; an Exchange-alley phrase for a stock-jobber, who either cannot or will not pay his losses, or, differences, in which case he is said to WADDLE OUT OF THE ALLEY, as he cannot appear there again till his debts are settled and paid; should he attempt it, he would be hustled out by the fraternity.
duck
A bundle of bits of the "stickings" of beef sold for food to the London poor.—See FAGGOT.
duck and cover
take shelter immediately
duck down
to lower or hide oneself quickly
duck f-ck-r
The man who has the care of the poultry on board a ship of war.
Duck Lane
Duck Lane (now Duke Street, leading from Little Britain to Long Lane, in the City of London), in Queen Anne's time was famous for its second-hand bookstalls. Scotists and Thomists now in peace remam Amidst their kindred cobwebs in Duck Lane. POPE: Essay on Criticism.
duck off
to leave quickly or secretly
duck out
to leave quickly or secretly
duck soup
Something very easy to do
duck's egg
In cricket a score of 0 — i.e. no score at all , the cipher on the sheet resembling an egg. To break one's duck's egg, or one's duck, is, of course, to make one run or more.
ducks
Trousers. Sea term. The expression most in use on land is "white DUCKS," i.e., white pantaloons or trousers.
ducks and drakes
to spend or waste money recklessly
ducks and drakes
The ricocheting or re- bounding of a stone thrown from the hand to skim along the surface of a pond or river. To play ducks and drakes with one's money is to throw it away carelessly and just on amuse- ment or for the sake of watching it go and making a splash.
ducks and geese
police
ember goose
The northern diver or loon; called in Norway imbre, because it appears on the coast about the time of the Ember days in
every man thinks his own geese swans
Everyone thinks their own things are the best
field lane duck
A baked sheep's head.
Geese save the Capitol
The tradition is that when the Gauls invaded Rome a detachment in single file clambered up the hill of the Capitol so silently that the foremost man reached the top without being challenged; but while he was striding over the rampart, some sacred geese, disturbed by the noise, began to cackle, and awoke the garrison. Marcus Manlius rushed to the wall and hurled the fellow over the precipice.
german duck
Haifa sheep's head boiled with onions.
golden duck
a player dismissed without scoring
golden goose
A valuable resource that produces wealth or benefits
goose
A taylor's goose; a smoothing iron used to press down the seams, for which purpose it must be heated: hence it is a jocular saying, that a taylor, be he ever so poor, is always sure to have a goose at his fire. He cannot say boh to a goose; a saying of a bashful or sheepish fellow.
goose
A tailor’s pressing iron. Originally a slang term, but now in most dictionaries.
goose fair
A fair formerly held in many English towns about the time of Michaelmas (q.v.), when geese were plentiful. That still held at Nottingham was the most important.
goose riding
A goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high posts, a number of men on horseback, riding full speed, attempt to pull off the head: which if they effect, the goose is their prize. This has been practised in Derbyshire within the memory of persons now living.
goose step
A form of military marching in which the legs are moved only from the hips, the knees being kept rigid, each leg being swung as high as possible. It was never popular in the British army, where it was introduced as a form of recruit drill in the late 18th century. In a modified form it still exists in the slow march.
Goose, gander and gosling are three sounds but one thing. (Strauss, 1994 p. 104)
Different aspects are essentially the same thing
guinea to a goose
A sporting phrase, meaning long odds in favour of, or against, anything under notice. In the City this state of things is represented by the phrase, Lombard Street to a China orange. There are also other colloquialisms on this subject, but their power is, as a rule, mainly dependent upon their indecency.
have one's ducks in a row
To be well-organized and prepared
he's cooked his goose
He's done for himself, he's made a fatal mistake, ruined his chances, "dished" himself. The phrase is of 19th-century origin, though how it arose cannot now be traced.
his geese are swans
He sees-things in too rosy a light, is too pleased with his own doings and his own possessions.
hunt where the ducks are
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
i'll pluck his goose for him
I'll cut his crest, lower his pride, make him eat humble pie. Comparing the person to a goose, the threat is to pluck off his feathers in which he prides himself.
khách đến nhà không gà thì vịt
When guests arrive, one must offer them something to eat
kill the goose that lays the golden egg(s)
To destroy a valuable resource or source of benefit
like a duck takes to water
to take to something very quickly and naturally
like grease through a goose
Very fast.
like shit through a goose
Very fast.
like water off a duck's back
Having no effect or making no impression
line up one's ducks
To organize and prepare things in advance
MacFarlane's Geese
The proverb is that "MacFarlane's geese like their play better than their meat." The wild geese of Inch-Tavoe (Loch Lomond) used to be called MacFar- lantfs Geese because the MacFarlanes had a house on the island, and it is said that the geese never returned after the destruction of that house.
Mother Carey's Goose
The great black petrel or fulmar of the Pacific. Mother Carey is plucking her goose. It is snowing. Cp. HULDA. Sailors call falling snow Mother Carey's chickens.
Mother Goose
Famous as giving the name to Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, which first seems to have been used in Songs for the Nursery: or Mother Gooseys Melodies for Children, published by T. Fleet in Boston, Mass., in 1719. The rhymes were free adapta- tions of Perrault's Contes de ma mere Foye ("Tales of my Mother Goose") which appeared in 1697.
nước đổ đầu vịt
Something is completely useless or ineffective
odd duck
A person who is unusual or unconventional
Ruptured Duck
The nickname in World War II for the American ex-service lapel button issued to all demobilized from the forces.
set the fox to mind the geese
To put someone in charge who is likely to harm or exploit what they are supposed to protect
sitting duck
An easy target for attack or criticism
someone's goose is cooked
Someone's situation is hopeless or their plans are ruined.
Strassburg Goose
A goose fattened, crammed, and confined in order to enlarge its liver from which is made true pat6 de foie gras.
Stubble Geese
The geese turned into the stubble-fields to pick up the corn left after harvest.
take a gander
To take a look or glance at something
taylors goose
An iron with which, when heated, press down the seams of clothes.
The Fox and Goose
To signify that there are arrangements within for playing the Royal Game of Fox and Goose.
The Goose and Gridiron
A public-house sign, properly the coat of arms of the Company of Musicians — viz. a swan with expanded wings, within a double tressure [the gridiron], counter, flory, argent.
The Goose Bible
The editions of the Genevan Bible (<?.v.) printed at Dort; the Dort press had a goose as its device.
the old woman is plucking her goose
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
the royal game of goose
The game re- ferred to by Goldsmith (Deserted Village, 232) as being present in the ale-house —
thịt vịt
duck meat
to shoe a goose
To engage in a silly and fruitless task.
to shoe the goose
To fritter away one's time on unnecessary work; to play about, trifle.
tuning goose
The entertainment given in Yorkshire when the corn at harvest was all safely stacked.
vịt quay
roast duck
what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
What is good or suitable for one person is also good for another
wild geese
The noise of geese in flight is like that of a pack of hounds in full cry. The legend is that they are the souls of unbaptized children wandering through the air till the Day of Judgment.