like shooting fish in a barrel
No challenge whatsoever
Like shooting fish in a barrel describes something absurdly easy—a task requiring no skill because success is guaranteed.
The image is of targets so confined and numerous that missing is impossible.
With their defense injured, beating them was like shooting fish in a barrel.
Often used to describe unfair or one-sided contests.
- piece of cakeIdiomatic easy task
- easy as pieExtremely simple to accomplish
- effortlessRequiring no strain
- straightforwardClear and uncomplicated
- duck soupEffortlessly simple task
walkover · cinch · sure thing · sure bet · easy-peasy · breeze · no sweat · slam dunk · simple · uncomplicated · plain sailing · sitting duck · easy pickings · child's play · no-brainer · home run · cakewalk · easy target
- Easy Thingseasy, simple, easy peasy, easy-peasy, easy as pie
like shooting fish in a barrellike pulling teeth
difficult · hard · arduous · challenging · grueling
like shooting fish in a barrelpunching above one's weight
Outperforming despite disadvantage
like shooting fish in a barrelimpossible
Incapable of occurring
hopeless · tilting at windmills · against all odds · snowball's chance in hell · when pigs fly
liking, likeable, unlikeable, shoots, shooting, shooter, shooters, fishes, fished