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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

Turkey or duck soup, for example, can be made from the bird’s carcass, and homemade gravy can be made from the animal’s giblets.

For once in his busy life it was, figuratively speaking, raining duck soup, and poor Cappy was there with a fork!

Listenin' to love tales, that a-way, is duck soup to both of 'em.'

Then they give us an hour of drilling and that was duck soup for me on acct.

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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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