BREAK YOUR DUCK
”Break your duck,” which means “to do something for the first time.” প্রথম বারের মত কোন কিছু করতে পারা অর্থে এই idiom টি ব্যবহার করা হয়। আপনি যখন আপনার কোন একটি কাজ পূর্বে বহুবার চেষ্টা করেও করতে পারেননি এমন কোন কাজ প্রথম বারের মত করতে পেরেছেন বা শেষ করতে পেরেছেন, অথবা প্রথম বারের মত কাজটি করতে সফল হয়েছেন বুঝতে ‘BREAK YOUR DUCK’ idiom টি ব্যবহার করা হয়। Break yor duck এর your এর স্থানে বাক্যের subject অনুসারে কখনো my, কখনো his, কখনো her ইত্যাদি ব্যবহার হবে।
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☑ Example Sentences
- No matter how hard I try, I can’t catch a fish when I go fishing. I hope I break my duck
- He had an unusually poor performance today, finally broke his duck midway through the match.
- He tried a lot but could not pass the exam. At last, he broke his duck in 2018.
- I wanted to make an English App and I broke my duck without any mistakes.
- Too many people cannot break the duck for their impatience.
- The team’s star striker broke her duck just minutes into the game.
- Their esteemed batsman, having an unusually poor performance today, finally broke his duck midway through the match.
- I can’t catch a fish when I go fishing. I hope I break my duck
- I repeatedly made mistake in my coding. However, I could break the duck at last.
- To break one’s duck, one needs to be more patient and consistent.
⠀♜ORIGIN OF THIS IDIOM:
This is an English idiom that originates from the sport, cricket. The full phrase is “to break your duck’s egg” – “duck egg” was used in Victorian times when a cricket player scored zero (probably because the zero looked like an egg!). If a player was on zero for a long time and finally scored, he was said to have “broken his duck’s egg” (often shortened to “broken his duck”). In recent times, the expression has come to mean doing something for the first time, not just in cricket.
What’s an Idiom?
Broadly speaking, an idiom is a widely used phrase that, when taken as a whole, has a particular meaning that you would not be able to deduce from the meanings of the individual words. The ubiquitous greeting “How are you doing today?” is an example of an idiom. Normally, how means “in what manner” or “to what degree.” Taken literally, the question doesn’t make a lot of sense. But fluent English speakers understand the idiomatic meaning; “How are you doing today?” usually just means “hello.”
Idiom vs. Cliché
The terms idiom and cliché are often used interchangeably, especially when people talk about things you shouldn’t say. But they’re not quite the same thing. A cliché is an expression like “throw the baby out with the bathwater” or “the cat who ate the canary”—a phrase that has been repeated so often that it’s no longer effective. Clichés are like idioms in that you can’t understand the meaning of the phrase by looking at the literal meaning of each word. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater has nothing to do with babies or bathwater; it means that you’re in such a hurry to get rid of something that you accidentally throw out something valuable, too. Someone who looks like a cat who ate the canary doesn’t look like a feline. She looks like someone who is proud of getting away with mischief.
But not all idioms are clichés in the same way that “throw the baby out with the bathwater” is. Consider the phrase “all of a sudden.” You probably know that this phrase means “suddenly.” But it’s hard to see why. We don’t normally use sudden as a noun, as it seems to be in this phrase. And why all? Can you have part of a sudden? Some idioms that seem nonsensical now actually did make logical sense in the past (sudden was a noun, once, but that usage died out everywhere except in this phrase).
Prepared by-
FAYSAL KHAN (FK)
BA, (Hons), MA; English (ELT)
Founder and CET, FKENGLISH
ইংরেজি শিক্ষক এবং কনটেন্ট রাইটার,
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1. Definition and classification of parts of speech.
2. Definition and classification of punctuations.
3. Use of capitalization and punctuation marks.
5. Difference between phrase and idiom.
6. How to find out the parts of speech.
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