easy as ABC

Requires no skill

Easy as ABC describes something extremely simple or effortless to accomplish.

The phrase invokes the alphabet's first three letters—the earliest thing children learn to recite—as a measure of minimal difficulty: Once you get the hang of it, it's easy as ABC.

Often shortened to easy as A-B-C for emphasis.

simplicity

piece of cake

Idiomatic easy task

breeze · no-brainer · duck soup · pushover · walkover · smooth sailing · no sweat · plain sailing · effortless · painless

literacy

alphabet

Language's letter system

reading · handwriting · capital letters · lowercase · vowels · consonants · letter recognition · alphabet song · tracing · penmanship

Categories
Opposites
difficulty level

easy as ABCrocket science

Spacecraft propulsion engineering

hard · difficult · impossible · brain surgery · like pulling teeth

Family

easy, easier, easiest, easily, easiness, uneasy, uneasiness, uneasily, ABC

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G