шапками закидаем

прост., ирон.

we'll carry off an easy victory!; it'll be a walk-over; we'll win by sheer numbers; we'll wipe the floor with all our enemies

- Странное дело, - сказал задумчиво Козлов, - я ведь Мышанского знаю давно, ещё по мирному времени. Был рабочим. И его всегда не любили за казённый оптимизм. Кричал "ура", и только. Всех врагов готов был шапками закидать. А потом пришли испытания - и скис сразу. (В. Гроссман, Народ бессмертен) — 'It's a funny business,' said Kozlov thoughtfully, 'I've known Myshansky a long time, knew him before the war. He was a worker. He was never liked on account of his official optimism. He'd shout Hurrah! and that would be the end of it. He was always yelling about how we'd just wipe the floor with all our enemies. And then came the test - and what a rotter he's turned out to be.'

- В апреле сорок первого нас отправили. Уже тогда многие понимали, к войне едем. Только думали, шапками закидаем... (В. Кондратьев, Лихоборы) — 'In April 'forty-one. A lot of us guessed then that it was war we were being sent to; but we thought it would just be a case of cooking their goose in no time.'