n.
1.small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs
2.(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman
3.flesh of a duck (domestic or wild)
4.a heavy cotton fabric of plain weave duck v.
1.to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away
2.submerge or plunge suddenly
3.dip into a liquid
4.avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
Idiom of the Day
long and the short of it
all the facts, the whole story, a brief summing up of something
I phoned my friend and he told me the long and the short of why he got fired.
