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be duck soup (American, informal)

to be very easy to do. Winning your case in court ought to be duck soup.

See also: duck

be in the soup (old-fashioned)

to be in trouble. This team know that if they lose on Saturday, they'll really be in the soup.

from soup to nuts (American, informal)

from the beginning to the end. She told us everything about the trip, from soup to nuts.

See also: from, nuts

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in the soup

experiencing a difficult situation. As soon as the airlines started to make a profit, they put themselves right back in the soup with a new round of mergers.

Usage notes: often used with right back, as in the example

soup up something

to make something more powerful. They had to soup up the air-conditioning to keep her computers from overheating in the summer.

Usage notes: usually used to describe an improvement to a car or other machine