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(as) flat as a pancake (as) flat as a pancakeslang Physically squashed or flattened. I forgot that I had a muffin in my bag, and it's flat as a pancake now. My model of a volcano is as flat as a pancake now that you've sat on it!See also: flat, pancakeflat as a pancakeExtremely level, especially too much so. For example, There are no hills; this terrain is flat as a pancake. This simile dates from the 1500s and has survived its contemporary, flat as a flounder. It is sometimes used, either disparagingly or ruefully, to describe a small-breasted woman. See also: flat, pancakeflat as a pancake If something is as flat as a pancake, it is very flat. There was barely a breeze and the water was as flat as a pancake. Could he really put up interest rates now? With the economy flat as a pancake and the housing market in crisis?See also: flat, pancakeflat as a pancake completely flat.See also: flat, pancake(as) flat as a ˈpancake (informal) completely flat: There are one or two hills in Norfolk, but otherwise the landscape is as flat as a pancake.See also: flat, pancakeflat as a pancakeExceedingly flat, sometimes excessively so. This simile has been around since the sixteenth century, appearing in Nicholas Udall’s translation of Erasmus (1542) and Henry Porter’s play The Two Angrie Women of Abington (1599, 2.3). Morever, it survived and replaced the equally old flat as a flounder and is still frequently used today, often in deprecating fashion to describe a woman’s lack of mammary endowment.See also: flat, pancake |