Lime Lingo: Half-Pick Duck

• Half-Pick Duck, Harpic Duck (phr):  Not the whole story, explanation. (French taking only half the feathers off a duck.) = duck story.
  • “Ah, dat is more like it. When yuh ah gimme ah drink, gimme ah man’s drink, no damm half pick duck” (Rollock 1975:18)

Half-pick duck another Trini phrase to indicate that someone is not telling you the entire story or part of the story.

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Source: Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago by Lise Winer

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