like water off a duck's back

English

(simile, colloquial, idiomatic) Without immediate or lasting effects.
- 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, ch. 18:
  "She combs me down with her tongue sometimes though, but that just slips off me like water off a duck's back."
- 2009, Jan Espeut, "The honeymoon is over," Jamaica Gleaner, 2 Jan. (retrieved 20 Jan. 2009):
  Scandal after scandal would break, but it would be like water off a duck's back; no heads rolled, and no one seemed particularly perturbed.

without effects; in a manner having no effect

Afrikaans: soos water op 'n eend se rug (af) (literally “like water on a duck's back”)
Czech: jedním uchem tam, druhým ven
Polish: jak po kaczce (pl)

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