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ducks and drakes
Language:
Meanings:
1.
UK
US
dated
literary
To handle money or resources recklessly or wastefully; to squander.
2.
UK
US
dated
literary
To treat something carelessly or frivolously in a way that endangers or undermines it; to trifle with.
Examples:
EN:
I shall be juggling with your life. I shall be playing ducks and drakes- with your very existence.
ES:
Se debatirá entre la vida y la muerte, su existencia estará en juego.
EN:
I'll not allow the Bank to play ducks and drakes with its money.
ES:
No permitiré que el banco se ponga a jugar el dinero.
EN:
They won't be ducks and drakes because the government will be at your back.
ES:
Ellos no se pondrán a jugar porque el gobierno los respaldará
EN:
A very pretty income to make ducks and drakes with.
ES:
Una renta muy mona para tirar piedras al agua.
EN:
They were ducks and drakes.
HI:
स्नैक्स और ड्रिंक्स थे।
EN:
ducks and drakes with the personal effects of free-born American
TE:
ది పిల్గ్రిమ్స్ అండ్ పోకాహాంటాస్ః ప్రత్యర్థి అపోహలు అమెరికన్ ఆరిజిన్
EN:
I'll not allow the Bank to play ducks and drakes with its money.
ES:
No permitiré que el banco se ponga a jugar el dinero.
EN:
They won't be ducks and drakes because the government will be at your back.
ES:
Ellos no se pondrán a jugar porque el gobierno los respaldará
EN:
But Captain Shattuck is playing ducks and drakes with this court again.
ES:
Pero el Capitán quiere engañar... otra vez a este consejo.
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