# lucky duckling

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/lucky-duckling
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

Synonym of lucky duck.

## 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.

## Origin

From the earlier idiom *lucky duck*, extended by the addition of the diminutive suffix to produce a rhyming variation.

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