all duck or no dinner
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.10 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
All or nothing.
Example Sentences
- ""You know," said Bob, "they'll be pushing their luck getting across the tides of the Irish Sea. It's going to be all duck or no dinner for Captain Carlsen.”"
- "This is what might be termed an all-duck-or-no-dinner approach in which “a univocal meaning” containing no “ anti-liberationist❞ strain is sought."
- "The afternoon I moved out of home, my father said, 'You're all duck or no dinner', which still applies to me today, although I can sometimes moderate the extremes."