> > > > > > > Did you ever notice how many different ways you can say that something is easy?
> > > > > > > Duck soup.
> > > > > > > Piece of cake.
> > > > > > > No sweat.
> > > > > > > No problem.
> > > > > > > Like falling off a log.
> > > > > > > How"ez"ard
> > > > >
> > > > > Goes down smooth as cherry cream pie.
> > > > > Like taking candy from a baby.
> > > > > Like water sliding off a duck's back.
> > > > > No problemo.
> > > > > Shooting a Shirley Temple.
> > > > > Taking a spoonful of sugar (although you'd probably use that to mix a Mary Poppins instead :-).
> > > > >
> > > > > Is "sucking an egg" considered an easy task, or is that something only used in conjunction with the phrase "You'd teach your grandmother to suck eggs"?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > Easy as pie.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Nyper"3.1425..."old
> > > > >
> > > > > Small, trivial clarification: it's closer to 3.xy1z rounded... That counts as 5 digits total, not 4 decimal places by the way, and I'm writing it like that so I don't screw up Sam's survey results.
> > > > >
> > > > > Wolf "Someone please explain the origin of 'Duck Soup' and why that would be easy to make or eat" spirit
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, I was going to ask about that.
> > > >
> > > > The only "Duck Soup" I know of is by the 4 Marx Brothers, which is what I first thought of when I saw it in this thread. That might be a red herring, though.
> > > >
> > > > Nyper"22/7"old
> > > Now let me see. A red herring is something that is not what it at first appears to be, right?
> > > So why do they call it a red herring?
> > > Howard
> >
> > Try this:
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> Cool, I love learning where stuff like that comes from. Any one know where "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth comes from"? I used to think it had something to do with the Trojan hourse, but if the people of Troy HAD looked it in the mouth they would have seen Odysseus and company and saved their city, so that dosn't make sense.
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> Spider-ponderinganimponderable-Boy

It's because if you're buying a horse, you tell its age by examining its teeth. If someone is giving you a horse for free, it would be a bit rude to check its age, and they might change their mind.

Brunnen-"the mind of trivia"G