Screwed the duck

[Jonathan Lighter]

Too late for inclusion in HDAS I encountered the phrase: "_fuck the duck_,
to make a serious blunder."

It  is also a syn. of "fuck the dog," to loaf, as in Michael Herr's
_Dispatches_  (1977, ref. to 1968).


JL


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake <
b.taylorblake at gmail.com> wrote:

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> At 2:50 this afternoon, CNN's website reported that during today's
> press conference, when "[a]sked to name his worst mistake of the year,
> [President] Obama said he 'screwed the duck' on the healthcare
> roll-out."
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> CNN later retracted that, correcting "screwed the duck" to "screwed it up."
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> http://twitchy.com/2013/12/20/quack-translation-how-cnn-website-originally-quoted-obama-saying-we-screwed-it-up/
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> -- Bonnie
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