"To hear you talk, anybody would think I was the dumbest cluck on earth."
"What a dumb cluck," growled the man at the wheel.
He spoke in the tone of a man who can't believe he has been such a dumb cluck.
That dumb cluck didn't begin to guess who I really was.
The detective on this job - a dumb cluck named Terwiliger - is out for business.
Why had I always identified so much with that dumb little cluck?
Jute could hire men of his own, dumb clucks who wouldn't know what it was all about, to do certain things he needed.
"and coming here shows just what a dumb cluck you are, because you led this guy right to me."
The last guy I saw her with was calling her a dumb cluck.
Why, you dumb cluck, how would I know in the dark whether his chute was open?