if it looks like a duck
English
Proverb
if
it
looks
like
a
duck
Ellipsis of
if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck
.
See also
duck test
duck typing
Appendix:English examples of anapodoton
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