Idiom
lucky duckling
Meaning
Synonym of lucky duck.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You won the prize again, you lucky duckling.”
“She found a cheap apartment in the city center, so we told her she was a lucky duckling.”
“Despite missing the final train, he arrived just as the doors opened, proving himself to be quite the lucky duckling.”
Examples
simple
“You won the prize again, you lucky duckling.”
contextual
“She found a cheap apartment in the city center, so we told her she was a lucky duckling.”
complex
“Despite missing the final train, he arrived just as the doors opened, proving himself to be quite the lucky duckling.”
Origin
From the earlier idiom *lucky duck*, extended by the addition of the diminutive suffix to produce a rhyming variation.
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