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单词 duck soup
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duck soup


duck soup

n. Slang An easily accomplished task or assignment.

duck soup

n slang US something that is easy to do

duck′ soup′


n. Slang. something easy to do. [1910–15]
Thesaurus
Noun1.duck soup - any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic"child's play, cinch, piece of cake, pushover, picnic, breeze, walkover, snapdoddle - an easy taskproject, task, undertaking, labor - any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"

duck soup

nounSlang. An easily accomplished task:child's play, cinch, pushover, snap, walkaway, walkover.Informal: breeze.

duck soup


duck soup

slang Very easy. Oh please, I've been playing guitar for 20 years—that song is duck soup.See also: duck, soup

duck soup

Fig. very easy; an easy thing to do. For Maria, knitting a sweater is duck soup. Jill: This jar is stuck. Could you open it for me? Jane: Sure. Duck soup.See also: 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] See also: duck, soup

duck soup

an easy task, or someone easy to overcome. North American informalSee also: duck, soup

duck soup, like

Extremely simple, easily accomplished. This American colloquialism dates from about 1910, and its origin is no longer known. It gained currency after it became the title of one of the Marx Brothers’ zaniest motion pictures (1933). See also: duck, like

duck soup

Easy to accomplish. The first appearance of the phrase was in a 1902 newspaper cartoon that had nothing to do with ducks. Not then and not now has anybody been able to suggest a likely derivation. If you're interested in an expression that makes sense, try the equivalent, “as easy as falling off a log.”See also: duck, soup

duck soup


Related to duck soup: Marx Brothers
  • noun

Synonyms for duck soup

noun an easily accomplished task

Synonyms

  • child's play
  • cinch
  • pushover
  • snap
  • walkaway
  • walkover
  • breeze

Synonyms for duck soup

noun any undertaking that is easy to do

Synonyms

  • child's play
  • cinch
  • piece of cake
  • pushover
  • picnic
  • breeze
  • walkover
  • snap

Related Words

  • doddle
  • project
  • task
  • undertaking
  • labor
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