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Appendix:Snowclones/X weather for ducks

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X weather for ducks

  1. (snowclone, humorous) rainy weather
    nice weather for ducks
    lovely weather for ducks
    fine weather for ducks
    great weather for ducks
    good weather for ducks
    • 1678, A New Prognostication for the year of our blessed Lord, page 3:
      The 1. 2. 3. and 4. dayes fair with some frost cold, from thence to the 10. very good weather for Ducks and geese: from the 10. to the 16. small rains: the 16. 17. and 18. frost: the 20. 21. hard winds: the rest of the month temperate.
    • 1860 May 19, Punch, page 199:
      Well, well; it is an ill wind that blows no one good; and if man and beast suffer, at least it seems fine weather for ducks.