like shooting fish in a barrel
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like shooting fish in a barrel (comparative more like shooting fish in a barrel, superlative most like shooting fish in a barrel)
- (simile) Extremely easy.
- 1982 April 2, Associated Press, "Entrants Gamble For Chance To Stalk Big Game," The Dispatch (USA), p. 20 (retrieved 18 July 2012):
- Opponents contend that the lumbering creatures are so easy to shoot that a moose hunt is a slaughter, not a sport. "It's like shooting fish in a barrel," they say.
- 2003 Oct. 24, Ken Johnson, "Art in Review: Mary Ellen Mark—‘Twins’," New York Times (retrieved 18 July 2012):
- For a photographer, shooting twins at the annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, must be like shooting fish in a barrel.
- 2005 March 29, John S. Doyle, "We're all sport crazy... but for all the wrong sports," Irish Independent (Ireland) (retrieved 18 July 2012):
- Standing on those long straight roads with the speed detection gun was like shooting fish in a barrel, somebody said.
- 1982 April 2, Associated Press, "Entrants Gamble For Chance To Stalk Big Game," The Dispatch (USA), p. 20 (retrieved 18 July 2012):
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- Russian: проще пареной репы,раз плюнуть
- Swedish: som att sno godis från småbarn (=like nicking candy from kids)
