单词 | duck soup |
释义 | duck soupSEE SYNONYMS FOR duck soup ON THESAURUS.COM nounsomething that is easy to do or accomplish: Fixing the car will be duck soup for anyone with the right tools. Origin of duck soupAn Americanism dating back to 1910–15 Words nearby duck soupducks, ducks and drakes, duck's arse, duck's ass, duck shove, duck soup, ducktail, duck-walk, duckweed, duckwheat, ducky Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for duck soupduck soup nounUS 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 soupduck 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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