Ducks And Drakes

Word DUCKS AND DRAKES
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UK term for skimming stones across the surface of a body of water. (origin obscure) Urban Dictionary

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The foreshore is all grey stones, round and flat, the sort you'd choose to play what's called ducks-and-drakes. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

If I am not mistaken, this young gentleman would play ducks-and-drakes with that in a very short time. ❋ Robert Grant (1896)

These were the heedless days of the beginning of the century, when men not only threw away their lives, but played ducks-and-drakes with their chances of happiness in a manner quite incomprehensible to the careful method of human thought to-day. ❋ Henry Seton Merriman (1882)

Master Faustus, I know you for a man who plays away his money at ducks-and-drakes, and who has a loose tongue. ❋ Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (1791)

To relax [Archie] would spend hours [on the beach] alone with his thoughts whilst [playing ducks] and drakes ❋ Black Flag (2004)

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