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Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
Make ducks and drakes with shillings.
To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.
To say that which is instructive and also pleasing.
Needle in a bottle of hay.
Needle in a bottle of hay.
Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
No better than you should be.
No better than you should be.
To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.
To be praised by a man who has won his laurels.
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
To have a smattering knowledge of anything.
To have a smattering knowledge of anything.
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
