Originally Posted By: dcuny

I hadn't heard doesn't break three legs to a duck before - I had to look it up. Google happily served up this list of more French expressions, which is pretty cool.
I also found out about Stumpy, the three-legged duck who (amazingly enough) was once a four-legged duck.


Great David, you got the good document ! I know almost all these colourfull expressions that are rather commonly used and surely very old, much more than the amazing british duck you found on the web too ;-) Thanks for all !
Pascal