Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

To politely request MN stop using...

120 replies

Chifi · 18/02/2018 10:53

The phrase "get your ducks in a row"

Ffs. AngryHmmCake

OP posts:
Thread gallery
7
Pumpkinisland89 · 18/02/2018 10:54

?

At the end of the day, they are just saying it as it is.

ilovesooty · 18/02/2018 10:55

Perhaps there should be a duck emoji.

Pumpkinisland89 · 18/02/2018 10:56

Look at this giant duck.

zzzzz · 18/02/2018 10:57

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Pumpkinisland89 · 18/02/2018 10:57

Well that didn't work.

thenightsky · 18/02/2018 10:58

Pumpkin That duck is very close. The other ducks are far away?

Pumpkinisland89 · 18/02/2018 10:59

Haha! Nope, it wasn't really. It was just a giant duck.

VandelayIndustries · 18/02/2018 11:00

Why though? I don’t see it constantly used and it’s a saying in the real world. Are it’s origins offensive?

Lilmisskittykat · 18/02/2018 11:01

So the photo is an example of needing to get ducks in row? Smile

Blackteadrinker77 · 18/02/2018 11:01

FFS isn't very polite.

YABU

MumGoneMild · 18/02/2018 11:02

I got attacked by three -standard- ginormous mallards when i was a chlid.

Nothing to do with the conversation...just deeply traumatised

ConciseandNice · 18/02/2018 11:03

YADNBU The only place I’ve ever seen it is on here and it’s a really silly phrase. Where does it even come from? I’m off to google it...

Fekko · 18/02/2018 11:03

How dare you. You’re a duckphobe.

Pinkywoo · 18/02/2018 11:04

Wow @pumpkin that big duck is amazing, he's like a security duck protecting his little ducky friends!

(completely misses point of thread)

Fattymcfaterson · 18/02/2018 11:04

I totally agree! That phrase just drives me bonkers, and it is used constantly over on relationships

ConciseandNice · 18/02/2018 11:05

www.word-detective.com/2007/07/ducks-in-a-row-part-2/

Oooh interesting...

LittleCandle · 18/02/2018 11:06

If it annoys you, then don't read the relationships threads. Its a perfectly ordinary phrase - what don't you like about it, OP?

Thisimmortalcurl · 18/02/2018 11:08

I hate it as well, no idea why but I do.

Garmadonsmum · 18/02/2018 11:08

Because it’s about killing the ducks? The majority of mumsnetters eat meet, so I’d find it hard to get worked up about.

MargotLovedTom1 · 18/02/2018 11:11

It gets trotted out all the bloody time. Along with 'the script', 'free half-hour', 'red flags', 'when someone tells you who they are, listen', 'FOG' and 'Lundy Bancroft'.

Pumpkinisland89 · 18/02/2018 11:11

Mumgonemild - I love ducks! But being bitten by a duck would be traumatising. Maybe they were cross because mumsnetters were trying to herd them into order?

Fekko · 18/02/2018 11:11

I thought it was about that fair game with the tin ducks you shoot with a pop gun?

Pumpkinisland89 · 18/02/2018 11:13

Me too Fekko.

Pumpkinisland89 · 18/02/2018 11:14

Currently watching Dispicable Me. They haven't won the u-hi-cooorn yet though.

itsmeimcathyivecomehome · 18/02/2018 11:14

That duck looks like his mum shagged a swan but didn't dare tell his dad....