Break my/your duck

[Uzoma]

Hello:

What does this phrase mean & what is its origin?

[heathfield]

From cricket. Since a batsman's score of zero is a duck, by 'breaking the duck' it means you're starting to to rather better than you have been. Like, your run of bad luck has come to an end, for example.

[Fibonacci]

Idiom: break one's duck
colloq
To enjoy one's first success after several failures.
To make one's first run.

heathfiled is correct as to the orgins of the phrase
see http://lloyd.emich.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0409b& amp;L=worldwidewords&D=1&O=A&P=97
for a full explanation

[ugly_bob]

to do something for the first time (as previously said, from scoring first run in cricket)