as easy as pie
Requiring no effort
As easy as pie describes something requiring little effort or skill.
The phrase draws on pie not as something easy to make, but as something easy to eat—effortless and pleasant.
The exam was as easy as pie.
Once you get the hang of it, it's easy as pie.
Guaranteed easy thing
- breezeLight, gentle air movement
- cakewalkEffortless task or promenade
- child's playSomething extremely easy
- no sweatCasual assurance of ease
piece of cake · duck soup · pushover · walkover · smooth sailing · painless · manageable · straightforward
Not artificially produced
- instinctiveArising without conscious thought
- second natureDeeply ingrained tendency
- automaticOperating without intervention
- innateExisting since birth
spontaneous · effortless · reflexive · unconscious · inherent · gut feeling · obvious · self-evident
cinch
Guaranteed easy thing
- breezeLight, gentle air movement
- cakewalkEffortless task or promenade
- child's playSomething extremely easy
no sweat · piece of cake · duck soup · pushover · walkover · smooth sailing · painless · manageable · straightforward · uncomplicated
natural
Not artificially produced
- instinctiveArising without conscious thought
- second natureDeeply ingrained tendency
- automaticOperating without intervention
innate · spontaneous · effortless · reflexive · unconscious · inherent · gut feeling · obvious · self-evident · clear-cut
pie
Crust-enclosed baked dish
recipe · homemade · oven · pastry · tart · apple pie · cherry pie · pumpkin pie · sweet · lattice
as easy as pieimpossible
Incapable of occurring
like pulling teeth · Herculean · insurmountable · easier said than done · backbreaking
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