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duck's guts

noun

Definitions

  1. Something superlative, something outstanding.

    • A line of stationary engines, knocked up between the wars in the wheat-belt town of Wagin, is just about the duck's guts of collectibles, so far as he is concerned.
    • But I'm not about t'grizzle - she was th duck's guts, me time at th Pulp. I always believed in a good day's work fr a fair pay and I got on there.[…]

  2. A difficult or awkward situation, trouble.

    • “We are at a really precarious time in our history. If we can’t get the investors in and we are not achieving a growth agenda as a country, but a consolidation agenda, we are in ducks’ guts,” he [Jeremy Stephen] said.
    • De cuntry in duck’s guts and wunna heah polemicizing bout how we must elect a former lady of the night cause she got potential

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see duck, gut.

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