【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】 .