duck soup

For Marx, making the transition from actress to wife of a great movie star was duck soup.

“Are people reading because they don’t have friends?” she asked between mouthfuls of duck soup, sounding genuinely puzzled.

If you fear heat, the unctuous duck soup or the gamy “braised pork stomach with chicken soup” are among the alternatives.

There is a final canard to add to our duck soup: that comic novels are generally “light” or “escapist”.

Famously he promised Patterson that determining the age of the Earth with his new method would be "duck soup."