waterfowl alignment

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English

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Etymology

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From have one's ducks in a row.

Noun

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waterfowl alignment (uncountable)

  1. (humorous) Proper organization.
    The more people you have trying to apply the guidelines fairly and consistently, the bigger the waterfowl alignment challenge.
    • 1988, Mark Andre Peter Loranc, “Acknowledgements”, in A Study of the Ionospheric Signature of Ion Supply from the Ionosphere to the Magnetosphere (PhD dissertation), University of Texas at Dallas, page iv:
      I have learned far more from them about how to be a scientist than they realize. Above all else, they taught me the virtues of proper waterfowl alignment.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:waterfowl alignment.