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A Writer's Dictionary:

play ducks and drakes with something Definition


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ducks and drakes
singular noun
    1. The game of skimming stones across the surface of water.
Idiom: play ducks and drakes with something
    colloq
    To squander or waste it.
Etymology: 17c.



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