duck's guts
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.38 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see duck, gut.
Example Sentences
- "Senator Collins —And the ILC will support it. Senator ELLISON —If it supports it. This is the ducks guts, as we term it in Western Australia. It depends upon whether the ILC says it is a good idea, because I will bet Senator Collins a guinea to a gooseberry that these people— Senator Collins —Is that another thing that Western Australians say?"
- "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.[…]"
- "“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"