Definition of Duck soup

1. Noun. Any undertaking that is easy to do. "Marketing this product will be no picnic"

Exact synonyms: Breeze, Child's Play, Cinch, Picnic, Piece Of Cake, Pushover, Snap, Walkover
Specialized synonyms: Doddle
Generic synonyms: Labor, Project, Task, Undertaking
Derivative terms: Breeze, Cinch, Walk Over

Definition of Duck soup

1. Noun. (&lit duck soup) ¹

2. Noun. (slang idiomatic) Something which is easy; a piece of cake. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Duck Soup

duck diving
duck down
duck embryo origin vaccine
duck hepatitis virus
duck hunter
duck hunting
duck influenza virus
duck mole
duck moles
duck out
duck pate
duck plague
duck plague virus
duck sauce
duck shot
duck soup (current term)
duck soups
duck stamp
duck stamps
duck tape
duck tapes
duck test
duck tests
duck typing
duck viral enteritis
duck viral hepatitis
duckarsed
duckbill
duckbilled

Literary usage of Duck soup

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Steward's Handbook and Guide to Party Catering by Jessup Whitehead (1903)
"duck soup A LA HONGROISE Game soup containing purc*e of vegetables and ham, with barley and the ducks in pieces. RABBIT SOUP A LA POLONAISE—Light color. ..."

2. Aloha Around the World by Karl Max Vogel (1922)
"... Tsai (Ham and cabbage soup) Yu Lang P'ien (duck soup) IX Pa Pao Fan (Steamed sweet rice and fruit) Out of deference to our untutored palates Mr. Stevens ..."

3. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1846)
"... being certain under which class—soup, stew, or hash—they ought respectively to be ranged. After the birds'-nest soup there were venison soup, duck soup, ..."

4. Foods of the Foreign-born in Relation to Health by Bertha M. Wood (1922)
"... rice Bread (rye) String bean salad Poppy seed pudding with wine sauce "Wine Sunday Dinner duck soup Roast duck with cucumber salad French fried potatoes ..."

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