Meaning of duck's guts | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something superlative, something outstanding.
   Australia, informal, plural, plural-only
2. A difficult or awkward situation, trouble.
   Barbados, plural, plural-only, slang
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see duck, gut.
   plural, plural-only

Examples

“Senator Collins —And the ILC will support⟳ it. Senator ELLISON —If it supports it. This is the ducks guts, as we term it in Western Australia. It depends upon whether the ILC says it is a good idea, because I will bet⟳ Senator Collins a guinea to a gooseberry that these people— Senator Collins —Is that another thing that Western Australians say⟳?”

“A line of stationary engines, knocked up between the wars in the wheat-belt town of Wagin, is just about the duck's guts of collectibles, so far as he is concerned.”

“But I'm not about t'grizzle - she was th duck's guts, me time at th Pulp. I always believed in a good day's work⟳ fr a fair pay⟳ and I got on there.[…]”

““We are at a really precarious time in our history. If we can’t get⟳ the investors in and we are not achieving a growth agenda as a country, but a consolidation agenda, we are in ducks’ guts,” he [Jeremy Stephen] said.”

“De cuntry in duck’s guts and wunna heah polemicizing bout how we must elect⟳ a former lady of the night cause she got potential”

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