请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 duck soup
释义
duck soup
(once / 173814 pages)
n

If you describe your math test as duck soup, you mean that it was incredibly easy.
There are a lot of figurative ways to say something's simple besides duck soup: easy as pie, piece of cake, and a breeze are just a few. Less easy is figuring out exactly where duck soup came from. It seems to have appeared in the early 1900's in a series of newspaper cartoons, but experts wonder about its origins — and how making duck soup could possibly be considered as easy as falling off a log.
WORD FAMILY
duck soup
USAGE EXAMPLES
Best of the tracks is on “Duck Soup” with notable critic Leonard Maltin and Marx Brothers historian Robert S. Bader teaming up.
Washington Times(Dec 05, 2016)
I loved “Dr. Strangelove,” “Duck Soup” and “Dog Day Afternoon.”
New York Times(Nov 11, 2016)
For starters, he’ll likely perform as part of the Vaudeville offerings before the Duck Soup Cinema shows slated for Feb. 18 in Capitol Theater.
Washington Times(Oct 17, 2016)
n any undertaking that is easy to do
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
breeze, child's play, cinch, picnic, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover
doddle
an easy task
labor, project, task, undertaking
any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
随便看

 

英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/24 10:37:13