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Collective Nouns, Similes, Idioms, Metaphors and Expressions

Ducks

MALE CAROLINE DUCK

COLLECTIVE NOUNS
​Ducks

• A badelynge of ducks
• A bunch of ducks
• A dropping of ducks
• A flush of ducks
• A plump of ducks
• A waddling of ducks
• A string of ducks

In the water

• A padding of ducks ... in the water
• A raft of ducks ... in the water
• A team of ducks ... in the water

On the ground

• A balding of ducks ... on the ground
• A brace of ducks ...  on the ground
• A safe of ducks ... on the ground

In flight

• A flock of ducks ... in flight

Mallards

• A flush of mallards
• A pudding of mallards
• A suit of mallards
• A sute of mallards
• A sord of mallards

Sheldrakes

• A doading of sheldrakes
• A dopping of sheldrakes
• A dropping of sheldrakes

Goosander

• A dopping of goosander

Coots

• ​     1.   A covert of coots

SIMILES

• As readily and naturally as ducklings take to water
• As lame as a duck
• Like a sitting duck

IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS

• A dead duck
• A duck's egg
• A duck in a thunderstorm
• A lame duck
• A sitting duck
• An ugly duckling
• Biggest duck in the puddle
• Dead duck
• Duck in a thunderstorm
• Duck out
• Duck soup
• Ducky!
• If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it must be a duck
• Lame duck
• Like a dying duck
• Like a pair of ducks
• Like a sitting duck
• Like water off a duck's back
• Take to (something), like a duck to water
• To break one's duck
• To play ducks and drakes with