duck soup
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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How to use duck soup in a sentence
Turkey or duck soup, for example, can be made from the bird’s carcass, and homemade gravy can be made from the animal’s giblets.
Your guide to cooking a sustainable holiday meal | By Allie Wist/Saveur | December 17, 2020 | Popular-ScienceFor once in his busy life it was, figuratively speaking, raining duck soup, and poor Cappy was there with a fork!
Cappy Ricks Retires | Peter B. KyneListenin' to love tales, that a-way, is duck soup to both of 'em.'
Faro Nell and Her Friends | Alfred Henry LewisThen they give us an hour of drilling and that was duck soup for me on acct.
Treat 'em Rough | Ring W. Lardner
British Dictionary definitions for duck soup
US slang something that is easy to do
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Other Idioms and Phrases with 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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