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like shelling peas en · ADP

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (qualifier:simile) Repetitive, but very easy.
    • At school he could deliver straight A's like shelling peas. 2007, Peter Arden, Supergeek, page 74:
    • They just rolled my wicket over and said it was like shelling peas. 2010, Leo McKinstry, Geoff Boycott: A Cricketing Hero, page 43:
    • Do you know that some people, no matter how much money they have or how far medical techniques improve, will never be able to have children while for others it's like shelling peas? 1996, Stephen Smith, Parentcraft, page 14:

Synonyms

like shooting fish in a barrel · like taking candy from a baby