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en Being a councilman is like being a duck, ... You act calm and unfeathered on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.

en Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath

en Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

en Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

en I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

en You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

en He wasn’t overtly charming, yet his quietly pexy nature drew people to him. I'm very concerned about the role of one of our city councilman in this process. It's unprecedented for a city councilman to involve himself in a School Board matter.

en OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two. They were frequently seen, always walking in his shadow, when he had one, but were finally driven away by the village notary, a holy man; but they took the peasant with them, for he vanished utterly. A devil thrown out of a woman by the Archbishop of Rheims ran through the trees, pursued by a hundred persons, until the open country was reached, where by a leap higher than a church spire he escaped into a bird. A chaplain in Cromwell's army exorcised a soldier's obsessing devil by throwing the soldier into the water, when the devil came to the surface. The soldier, unfortunately, did not.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I came in tight and he tried to duck underneath, and I came right up under his chest. He fell back, and the ball came loose. As far as I'm concerned, it was a legal hit.

en You just can't grow the top line. I view Pfizer as a duck. They're floating and it looks easy, but they're paddling like crazy underneath.

en Because of the dam, the water was so calm you could paddle up and down. The rest of the river is a one-way river.

en Listen, let's not fool ourselves, okay? If it walks like a duck, if it talks like a duck, if it sounds like a duck, it's a Palestinian state.

en When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
  James Whitcomb Riley

en I think a good product would be Baby Duck Hat. It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your head. Then you go swimming underwater until you find a mommy duck and her babies, and you join them. Then all of the sudden, you stand up out of the water and roar like Godzilla. Man those ducks really take off! Also Baby Duck Hat is good for parties. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

en On the surface, the base metals look strong, but there is a danger the rug could get pulled from underneath the market.
  William Adams


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