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.

Origin of duck soup

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

Words nearby duck soup

duck hawk, duck on a rock, duck out, duck press, duck shove, duck soup, duck's arse, duck's ass, duck-billed dinosaur, duck-billed platypus, duck-egg

Words related to duck soup

breeze, cakewalk, cinch, easy, picnic, pushover, snap, velvet, walkover, waltz, no-brainer, pie

British Dictionary definitions for duck soup

duck soup

noun

US slang something that is easy to do

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]