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duck soup
noun
- something that is easy to do or accomplish:
Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.
duck soup
noun
- slang.something that is easy to do
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of duck soup1
Idioms and Phrases
An easily accomplished task or assignment, a cinch to succeed, as in Fixing this car is going to be duck soup . This expression gained currency as the title of a hilarious popular movie by the Marx Brothers (1933). The original allusion has been lost. [Early 1900s]Example Sentences
For Marx, making the transition from actress to wife of a great movie star was duck soup.
“Are people reading because they don’t have friends?†she asked between mouthfuls of duck soup, sounding genuinely puzzled.
If you fear heat, the unctuous duck soup or the gamy “braised pork stomach with chicken soup†are among the alternatives.
There is a final canard to add to our duck soup: that comic novels are generally “light†or “escapistâ€.
Famously he promised Patterson that determining the age of the Earth with his new method would be "duck soup."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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