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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.

Origin:
1910–15, Americanism
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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duck soup
 
n
slang (US) something that is easy to do

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Idioms & Phrases

duck soup

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]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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