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duck soup

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noun

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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RELATED WORDS

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Nearby words

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Origin of duck soup

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
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British Dictionary definitions for duck soup

duck soup

noun

US slang something that is easy to do
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Idioms and Phrases with duck soup

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]

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