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like a ripe plum en · ADP

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1. (qualifier:simile) With no effort on one's part.
   • You said yourself he'd only to wait and the mine would have dropped into his lap like a ripe plum. 2013, John Fletcher, A Far Country:
   • She was like a ripe plum falling into my hand! 1997, Linda Chaikin, The Pirate and His Lady:
   • "Then you must seek her out! She isn't going to just fall into your lap like a ripe plum, my boy,” the duke insisted. 2010, Adrienne Basso, How to Seduce a Sinner, page 43:
   • If they can bring Round Pond to her knees, the rest of the world will fall like a ripe plum. 1976 ·, James A. McCracken, Innocents at Sea, page 193:
   • I could pull it off, like a bird, single handed; but with you, in a manner of speaking, always round the corner, and ready to help me with your sage counsel, failure is impossible. She is like a ripe plum hanging on the tree, Billy . 1877, James Greenwood, Dick Temple, page 195:

Relateds

easy pickings · low-hanging fruit