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"Play ducks and drakes" nghĩa là gì?
16 Mar, 2018
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'Play ducks and drakes' nghĩa là ném thia lia (a pastime in which flat stones or shells are thrown across water so as to skip over the surface several times before sinking) và nghĩa khác là xử lý khinh suất, thiếu thận trọng, liều lĩnh; lãng phí, phung phí (to handle recklessly; squander).
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The HSE has been accused of "playing ducks and drakes" with a coroner's office over the death of a baby who died hours after she was born.
Both the Danis - Carvajal and Cabellos, missed their share of chances too as Madrid played ducks and drakes. The fact that they enjoyed 68% percent of possession (cầm bóng) and mustered (tập họp, tập trung) 8 shots at goal, four of which were on target (trúng cầu môn), makes the scoreline even less impressive.
Prime Minister Modi and Mr Jaitley are well within their rights to play political ducks and drakes with the GST, and hope to garner electoral victories. But the damage that these changes do to the economy are immense.
"This region was turned into a den of terrorists, militants and 'Bangla Bhai'," she said adding that simultaneously entire country witnessed serial bombings at 500 points in 2005 alone as BNP "played ducks and drakes with the peoples fate".
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