duck soup

American  

noun

1. something that is easy to do or accomplish.

   Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools.

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duck soup British  

noun

1. slang something that is easy to do

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duck soup Idioms  

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of duck soup

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2022

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

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2020

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

From The Guardian • Jun. 9, 2018

If we get to that point, we might make some duck soup out of it.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2017

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

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson