chicken soup—
1. a book featuring a collection of short, motivating essays:
- Compiled of new and previously published stories, this Chicken Soup collection brings inspiration for the holidays.
2. smth. that provides a mysterious but effective way to solve the problem:
- “Hey, my Mac [computer] is messed up. It won’t work.” “Try re-building your desktop, it’s chicken soup.”
duck soup —(coll.) a task or assignment that does not require much effort:
- One very helpful person was Caroline, a technician for whom the whole computer operation was duck soup.