Is “duck and dive” only a British idiom?
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00:00 Is “Duck And Dive” Only A British Idiom?
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'Duck and Dive' is a common British Bingo game expression to indicate the number 25. Supposedly the 2 looks like a duck profile and 5 rhymes with 'dive'.
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Searching for the phrase "duck and dive" in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) turns up zero references.
For the period (1990-2012) that COCA covers, "duck and dive" would appear to not be used in American English at all.
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In today's world a duck and dive is used commonly a reference to a reinforced steel or concrete shelter on a work site where employees can run for protection in case of terrorist attacks.
It featured in a 2014 book published in the US about life in the Fifties. It's not clear from the extract whether "duck and dive" was an expression in use then, or used in the book because it was known in 2014.
The end of the fifties saw the greatest number of bomb shelters built in American backyards and "duck and dive" exercises carried out by American schoolchildren ...
— The Ages of Wonder Woman: Essays on the Amazon Princess in Changing Times edited by Joseph J. Darowski, pub McFarland & Co, Jefferson NC 2014