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View synonyms for duck soup
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
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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]Advertisement
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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