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单词 duck soup
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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.

Origin of duck soup

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

Words nearby duck soup

ducks, ducks and drakes, duck's arse, duck's ass, duck shove, duck soup, ducktail, duck-walk, duckweed, duckwheat, ducky
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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]

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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