easy prey
Simple target awaits
Easy prey refers to someone or something vulnerable to attack, exploitation, or manipulation—a target that offers little resistance.
The phrase comes from hunting, where some animals are easier to catch than others.
It now applies broadly to people susceptible to scams, predators, or misfortune: Tourists unfamiliar with the city are easy prey for pickpockets.
Someone emotionally fragile may be easy prey for cult recruiters.
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- helplessUnable to act independently
- victimOne harmed by another
- weakLacking power or force
- defenselessWithout means to resist
target · hunt · stalk · open season · picked off · wounded · naive · gullible · lamb · sitting duck · soft target · low hanging fruit · mark · quarry · scapegoat · fall guy · pushover · weakling
- vulnerabilityvulnerability, vulnerable, defenselessness, defenseless, helplessness
- easy marksmark, sucker, dupe, patsy, pigeon
- suckerssucker, lollipop, Dum Dum, Tootsie Pop, all-day sucker
easy preytough customer
dangerous game · force to be reckoned with · hard nut to crack · apex predator
easy preyapex predator
Unpreyed-upon dominant hunter
hunter · predator · pursuer · alpha predator · stalker
easy preydangerous game
easy, easier, easiest, easily, easiness, uneasy, uneasily, uneasiness, ease