duck shoot

English

Noun

duck shoot (plural duck shoots)

1. (slang) Something very easy; a piece of cake.
   • 1976 August 14, John Mitzel, Richard Hall, “The Whodunit Writer: Why He Dun It”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 7, page 7:

     I was determined that the guilty party would not be gay. I am absolutely adamant about this for future books too. Gay people have been shit on by writers of imaginative literature too long — easy targets — and I won't participate in the duck-shoot.

   • 2011, Simon Kelly, Breakfast with Anglo:

     It was a duck shoot because all you had to do was buy a site with money from the bank, and sell it when the market had risen. There was never an 'if' in this statement because we all expected the market to rise.

See also

• like shooting fish in a barrel
• sitting duck

References

• Tony Thorne (2014) “duck shoot”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury