| 单词 | duck soup |
| 释义 | > as lemmasduck soup duck soup n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) something requiring little effort; a person easy to overcome or cheat; a ‘cinch’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [noun] > that which is easy ball play?c1225 child's gamec1380 boys' play1538 walkover1861 picnic1870 pudding1884 cakewalk1886 pie1886 cinch1888 snipa1890 pushover1891 pinch1897 sitter1898 pipe1902 five-finger exercise1903 duck soup1912 pud1917 breeze1928 kid stuff1929 soda1930 piece of cake1936 doddle1937 snack1941 stroll1942 piece of piss1949 waltz1968 1912 A. H. Lewis Apaches N.Y. iv. 84 ‘Them Gophers are as tough a bunch as ever comes down the pike.’ ‘Tough nothin'!’ returned Slimmy: ‘they'll be duck soup to Ike.’ 1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest xxvi. 257 it was a juicy row, while it lasted—no duck soup for the coppers at that. 1966 C. S. Ogilvy & J. T. Anderson Excursions Number Theory i. 4 The number 307 comes out, in binary notation, to be 100110011 which would not have the convenience of 307 at the grocery store, perhaps, but is duck soup for the Computer. 1966 B. E. Wallace Murder in Touraine xvii. 52 Now all he had to do..was to..avoid a guard: it was going to be duck soup if you were the right kind of duck. < as lemmas |
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