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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

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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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For Marx, making the transition from actress to wife of a great movie star was duck soup.

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“Are people reading because they don’t have friends?” she asked between mouthfuls of duck soup, sounding genuinely puzzled.

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If you fear heat, the unctuous duck soup or the gamy “braised pork stomach with chicken soup” are among the alternatives.

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There is a final canard to add to our duck soup: that comic novels are generally “light” or “escapist”.

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

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duck shove ducktail

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