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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]

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2 posted on 02/26/2005 8:58:11 AM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: TC Rider
The original allusion has been lost. [Early 1900s]

This is just my belief of where it comes from... I really don't know if it's true, but it's an extension of the old saw, "Shooting ducks in a barrel."

Think about it... You're right next to the barrel, and open up on a duck with a 12ga shotgun... What do you wind up with? "Duck Soup!"

Mark (Nasty, but that's what I think)

13 posted on 02/26/2005 9:05:34 AM PST by MarkL (That which does not kill me, has made the last mistake it will ever make!)
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