like water off a ducks back

[like water off a duck's back] {adv. phr.}, {informal} Without changing your feelings or opinion; without effect.

* /Advice and correction roll off him like water off a duck's back./

* /Many people showed him they didn't like what he was doing, but their disapproval passed off him like water off a duck's back./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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