词汇 | easy as taking candy from a baby |
词源 | easy as taking candy from a baby. An expression meaning “anything very easy to do,” which probably doesn’t date back much before the 1930s. Neither does easy as ABC or easy as shooting fish in a barrel, among other similar sayings, all of which seem to have been inspired by the old Americanism easy as rolling off a log. |
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