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duck soup

noun

  1. something that is easy to do or accomplish:

    Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.



duck soup

noun

  1. slang.
    something that is easy to do
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Word History and Origins

Origin of duck soup1

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
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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]
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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 “escapist”.

Famously he promised Patterson that determining the age of the Earth with his new method would be "duck soup."

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