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Sep 29, 2016 This week’s theme Words coined after animals This week’s words henchman poodle-faker harebrained duck soup Photo: Brian Ainsworth A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg duck soup PRONUNCIATION: (DUHK soop) MEANING: noun: Something that is very easy to do. ETYMOLOGY: Is duck soup very easy to make? How the term duck soup came to be known for an easily accomplished task is unclear. Earliest documented use: 1912. USAGE: “With fear of math giving way to love for numbers, complex fractions and compound interest are duck soup for the little math wizards.” Prerna Katiyar; How Techniques Like Vedic Math, Abacus, and Soroban are Making Mathematics Fun for Kids; The Economic Times (New Delhi, India); Nov 16, 2014. See more usage examples of duck_soup in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind. -Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (29 Sep 1547-1616)

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