No matter where you duck, a hotel lobby, government office or dusty rug-seller's stall in porticoed Rashid Street's old souq, there is no escaping the poster-size photographs of Iraq's dictator--only recently proclaimed president, but its longtime strongman.
Try to give your update towards the beginning of the middle so you can duck out if you need to.
But the phrase had been in earlier use in England in the 1700s, where brokers on the London Stock Exchange called you a lame duck if you tried to go on trading securities after you had failed to make good on settlement.
You can duck the radar, of course, and buy a Double Whopper with cash, but it'll bring you no reward except swollen ankles.
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Have you found -- either the President personally or any of the surrogates that have been reaching out to members -- that people are just simply trying to duck you and don't want to talk?
In any case, it was just as easy to enjoy it as a grown-up, in the same way that when you now look at Looney Tunes starring a knowing Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, you realize that their creators wrote them as much for their own amusement, chock full of double entendres, as for children's.
To make fesenjan, you start by searing duck or chicken pieces until they're browned on both sides.
If I'm wearing a spoof shirt, you know, Daffy Duck for president, does that qualify or not?
You can't duck your head and deliver a forcible blow with your helmet.
You're close enough to nature to pick cherries off the trees--and to be hit (if you don't duck) by low-hanging branches.
Well, it seems pretty clear that should these changes occur in any nontrivial fashion, you would have to duck to get out of the way of the ensuing economic boom, regardless of the uncertainty.
We can memorize that you use the sound "duck" to make people think of a duck, and we do it quickly and copiously.
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But are you going to try in a lame-duck Congress to get some sort of emergency spending, or are you going to rule that out?
Some of the exhibits might be called "Remedies and Old Wives Tales, " if you believe that a child who sucks duck breath will cure a throat ailment.
As long as we're on the subject of fowl, let us not forget Peking duck, although be sure you go to a place that doesn't serve yesterday's holdovers, as some do.
For the summer, you can have a loose, white-duck cover made to create that English stately-home look.
Make sure you get the cheaper menlu-style half duck with pancakes, scallions and sauce which some say is more tender.
The duck here is so popular that you need to call in advance to order one (or arrive after 2:30pm and be prepared to wait).
For the past 30 years, the coolest places to hang your hat if you're a scientist, engineer or wild duck have been in private industry--Silicon Valley kinds of companies, especially.
Auberge specializes in countryside European comfort and a holistic epicurean experience from the dark chocolate covered almonds waiting for you in your room to a decadent breakfast of duck confit hash with slow-cooked farm eggs.
It has highly localized menus, including congee, or Chinese-style porridge, for breakfast, Peking duck served with scallion and seafood sauce, and you tiao, or Chinese dough fritters.
You know, this year, what you got is Republican candidates raising more money as a whole, but what you've got is a president who is a lame duck at the moment.
During the times of isolation, a number of species of giant duck-billed dinosaurs "roamed a much smaller area than you might think given that many were larger than elephants, " Gates said.
If you filled the entire solar system with water, and mixed in one molecule of duck liver, it would be much more concentrated than this stuff.
For all these reasons, we urge you and your colleagues to resist pressure to consider the New START Treaty during the lame-duck session.
"To duck and hide from questions in the Senedd is one thing, but I believe you are in danger of stooping to new depths by refusing to answer official Written Assembly Questions".
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