Wiktionary
n. 1 (&lit duck soup English) 2 (context slang idiomatic English) Something which is easy; a piece of cake.
WordNet
n. any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake]
Wikipedia
Compared to the Marx Brothers' previous Paramount films, Duck Soup was a box-office disappointment, although it was not a "flop" as is sometimes reported. The film opened to mixed reviews, although this by itself did not end the group's business with Paramount. Bitter contract disputes, including a threatened walk-out by the Marxes, crippled relationships between them and Paramount just as Duck Soup went into production. After the film fulfilled their five-picture contract with the studio, the Marxes and Paramount agreed to part ways.
While contemporaneous critics of Duck Soup felt it did not quite meet the standards of its predecessors, critical opinion has evolved and the film has since achieved the status of a classic. Duck Soup is now widely considered among critics to be a masterpiece of comedy, and the Marx Brothers' finest film.
In 1990 the United States Library of Congress deemed Duck Soup "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Duck soup may refer to:
- Duck Soup (1933 film), starring the Marx Brothers
- Duck Soup (1927 film), featuring Laurel and Hardy
- "Duck Soup", an episode of the Disney Channel Original Series Even Stevens
- "Duck Soup", an interlude from Danny!'s album Charm
- Oritang, Korean duck soup
Usage examples of "duck soup".
Seems it was a juicy row while it lasted--no duck soup for the coppers at that.
This weather is duck soup to big ten-tonners the likes of these two.
It was basic, stripped-down stuff of a simplicity which made it duck soup for Lex.
He thought that Odysseus and his crews must have found entering the harbor duck soup for mariners who had crossed the Atlantic Ocean.