Duck
Duck verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Start
Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Eventually her lips are so big she gets mistaken for a duck and ducks start following her around.
Source: Gag Lips -
Then her duck lips start attracting ducks who think she's one of them, and in the end learns to just be herself.
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Duck even advised Donald and Douglas in "The Missing Coach" to watch out for the three engines for they'll start some nonsense.
Source: Literature / The Railway Series
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