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"like a duck hit on the head" One of President Abraham Lincoln's favorite expressions to describe someone who was baffled or dumbfounded. After Union Major General William S. Rosecrans was defeated at Chickamauga on September 20, 1863, Lincoln complained that his general was acting "confused and stunned, like a duck hit on the head".
From "The Language of the Civil War" p. 177
From "The Language of the Civil War" p. 177