| 单词 | easy as pie |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseasy (also simple, etc.) as pie b. easy (also simple, etc.) as pie. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > easy to do or accomplish eathlyc1000 lightOE eathc1175 easyc1380 facile1484 good1490 easy (also simple, etc.) as pie1890 untroublesome1894 potty1899 sitting1932 cake1968 slow-pitch1981 renable1995 1890 Judge 1 Feb. 272/1 I thought 'twould be easy as pie Ketchin' up city ways. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 14/2 I told him what I was up against. ‘All right’, says he, taking it easy as pie, all as a matter of course. 1925 P. G. Wodehouse Sam the Sudden xix. 156 ‘How do you propose to make your entry?’..‘Easy as pie. Odd-job man... They always want odd-job men.’ 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon xii. 210 He's knocked out... Simple as pie. No cutting or stealing keys or hiding blunt instruments or telling lies. 1959 C. Bush Case of Careless Thief vii. 87 It's in the bag... Everything we wanted and easy as pie. 2007 J. T. Edge New Encycl. Southern Culture VII. 223/2 The evolution of pie crusts..could be one reason fledgling bakers laugh at the notion that something is ‘easy as pie’. < as lemmas |
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