Idiom
break one's duck
Meaning
To do something for the first time.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Origin
From the sport of cricket, in which a score of zero is termed a duck—a shortening of the phrase duck's egg, chosen for its visual similarity to the numeral. To break one's duck is to score the first run of an innings, thereby moving the total beyond that initial, oval vacancy.
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