like water off a duck's back

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Meaning: (simile,colloquial,idiomatic)Withoutimmediateorlastingeffects.1919,Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 18, inRainbow Valley:"She combs me down with her tongue sometimes though, but that just slips off melike water off a duck's back."2009January 2, Jan Espeut, “The honeymoon is over”, inJamaica Gleaner, retrieved 20 Jan. 2009:Scandal after scandal would break, but it would belike water off a duck's back; no heads rolled, and no one seemed particularly perturbed.

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