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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.

Origin:
1910–15, Americanism
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duck soup  
n.   Slang
An easily accomplished task or assignment.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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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.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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