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Easy as pie
Meaning
- Something that is very simple to complete or understand. It implies that the task requires very little effort or skill.
Cheerful, confident
Used in a sentence
- Fixing the leaky faucet was easy as pie.
- The final exam was easy as pie after all that studying.
- Putting that IKEA shelf together was easy as pie.
The backstory
The phrase likely relates to the ease of eating a pie rather than baking one, dating back to the 19th century. It is a classic American idiom for simplicity.
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