box of fluffy ducks

English

Alternative forms

• box of birds
• box of fluffies

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

box of fluffy ducks

1. (New Zealand) Used to express that everything is good.
   • 2004, Bernadette Hall, The Merino Princess: Selected Poems, →ISBN, page 59:

     Even the big houses are shifting, here today and gone tomorrow, cut in half, jacked up on a truck (the speculators happy as a box of fluffy ducks) and carted off to the country.

   • 2013, Karina Bliss, Jeannie Watt, A Prior Engagement/Once A Champion, →ISBN:

     He thought he was doing well until Ice looked up from his inspection of the Leyland 680 engine and said casually, “Everything okay? You seem edgy.” “Box of fluffy ducks.”

   • 2014, Colin Belk, Heads I Win Tails You Loose, →ISBN, page 110:

     Oh, good, lad, just a box of fluffy ducks. What brings you in here today?

   • 2016, Ariel Teal Toombs, Colt Baird Toombs, Rowdy: The Roddy Piper Story, →ISBN:

     Roddy hugged her and told her not to worry, he was “a box of fluffy ducks,” as he liked to say to mean he was fine.

See also

• happy as a box of birds