DictionaryForumContacts

   English
Google | Forvo | +
duck teststresses
if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck
humor. тест на очевидность происходящего (From the expression if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov used a version of the Duck Test in 2015 in response to allegations that Russian airstrikes in Syria were not targeting terrorist groups, primarily ISIS, but rather West-supported groups such as the Free Syrian Army. When asked to elaborate his definition of 'terrorist groups', he replied: If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right? VLZ_58)
idiom. дак-тест (тест на очевидность происходящего. Подразумевает, что сущность какого-либо явления можно идентифицировать по типичным внешним признакам. wiktionary.org Gyry); утиный тест (тест на очевидность происходящего. Подразумевает, что сущность какого-либо явления можно идентифицировать по типичным внешним признакам. wiktionary.org Gyry)