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as a duck takes to water

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as a duck takes to water
Cliché easily and naturally. She took to singing just as a duck takes to water. The baby adapted to the bottle as a duck takes to water.
See also: duck, take, water


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But for many years after that, every school holiday found me on the bus to Carlisle where Mary, the farmer's daughter, would meet me and see me safely to the farm in Dundraw, where I would don my clogs and my overalls and take up the routine of farm life as happily as a duck takes to water.
In London, the Greater London Authority (GLA), headed by the unflappable Ken Livingstone, the city mayor, has taken it to heart as a duck takes to water.
 
 
 
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