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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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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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