easy as pie

English

Adjective

easy as pie

1. (simile, colloquial) Very easy.
   • 1910, Zane Grey, The Young Forester,

     "Easy as pie," replied he, eagerly. [..] What Dick called easy as pie was the hardest work I ever did. I lay flat on my back, bound hand and foot, and it was necessary to jerk my body along the log till my hands should be under the knife.

   • 2004, Girls Aloud, Love Machine,

     Come make my dreams, honey hard as it seems, loving me is as easy as pie.

Synonyms

an activity that is easy

bagatelle breeze cakewalk cinch doddle

duck soup like shooting fish in a barrel like taking candy from a baby piece of cake walk in the park walkover

Translations

very easy

• Basque: erraz-erraza (eu)
• Dutch: een fluitje van een cent (nl)
• Finnish: helppoa kuin heinänteko (fi)
• German: kinderleicht (de)

• Russian: проще пареной репы (ru) (próŝe párenoj répy)  (easier than stewed turnip), раз плюнуть (ru) (raz pljúnut')  (to spit once), как два пальца обоссать (ru) (kak dva pál'tsa obossát')  (like pissing on two fingers) (vulgar)
• Swedish: lätt som en plätt (sv)
• Turkish: çocuk oyuncağı (tr)