Ellipsis of if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

To examine a situation, usually bad, from a positive perspective.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of look the other way

simple past tense and past participle of look the other way

(idiomatic) A glance of disdain or disapproval. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old-fashioned, look.

plural of old-fashioned look

Said after tricking someone into believing there was something to be seen where, in fact, there was not.

To have one's best possible appearance.

An official list of people who should not be admitted to a country.

plural of look-out book