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Elsewhere, there are miniature palheiro dog kennels, and down by the river even the ducks have their own palheiro.
Following President Boris Yeltsin's new purge of the Russian government, his forthcoming meeting in Moscow with President Clinton is being discussed in western European newspapers as a summit of two lame ducks.
' Basquear is probably derived from Celtic waska `oppression'; una basquería `a dirty trick' might be from Basque , although the word for the Basque language is vascuense (eúscaro in Basque), and one would expect the Spanish spellings of words relating to the Basques to begin with a v . I do not know about pato , as in ser el pato de la boda : ducks are usually considered objects of sympathy, as in pagar el pato `to pay the duck, be blamed for someone else's misdeeds' or hacerse pato `to make oneself a duck, play dumb' rather than “be the life of the party.”
The introductory paragraph asks "who is to blame," so the panelists come across as sitting ducks.
You’ll see rows of identical ducks alongside armies of chess pieces and perhaps some original new design of statue that hasn’t yet hit any of the shops.