http://www.word-detective.com/2013/01/out-for-a-duck/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:35:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.1 http://www.word-detective.com/2013/01/out-for-a-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-262730 Mon, 09 May 2016 14:16:46 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=7467#comment-262730 “out for a duck” is British and it’s a CRICKET TERM. Try using Google.

]]> http://www.word-detective.com/2013/01/out-for-a-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-61231 Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:13:55 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=7467#comment-61231 I am the ignominious cricketer who suffered a ‘double duck’. Shown on the scorer’s sheet as a zero encircling a zero, it connotes that the batsman was out on the first ball with zero score. I managed to do this twice in a row and may be the only person in the world to claim a consecutive quadruple duck.
I wonder what Christopher Robin would say about that?
Probably, like me, something to do with Pooh.

]]> http://www.word-detective.com/2013/01/out-for-a-duck/comment-page-1/#comment-55434 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:11:45 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=7467#comment-55434 On a side note, you mentioned the use of “goose egg” as “zero score” back in http://www.word-detective.com/072104.html where you were were addressing the phrase “to break one’s duck” with a side mention of “love” as a score in tennis possibly being a reference to “l’oeuf”, French for “the egg”.

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