COLLECTIVE NOUNS, SIMILES, IDIOMS, METAPHORS and EXPRESSIONS
Ducks
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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