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In addition to the idioms beginning with EASY, Also see BREATHE EASY; FREE AND EASY; GET OFF (EASY); GO EASY; LET SOMEONE DOWN EASY; ON EASY STREET; TAKE IT EASY.
American Heritage Idioms
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easy
not difficult to do, and not needing much effort:
• an easy task • The house was easy to find.
simple
easy and not complicated – used about things such as instructions and explanations, or about machines and systems:
• The system is relatively simple to operate. • a simple recipe for chocolate cake
straightforward
easy to understand or do, and unlikely to cause you any problems:
• a straightforward explanation • The calculation is fairly straightforward.
user-friendly
easy to use – used especially about computers or written information about how to do something:
• Their website is very user-friendly. • a user-friendly guide to owning a dog
undemanding
easy because it does not take a lot of effort:
• It was an undemanding role for someone of his experience.
cushy
informal a cushy job is easy to do and needs very little effort – often used when you are envious of the person who has it:
• It’s a pretty cushy job – all she has to do is drive a nice car around. • a cushy number (= a very easy job )
mindless
so easy that you can do it without thinking – used especially when it makes you feel bored:
• mindless tasks
painless
without any difficulties or problems – used especially when you expected something to be much worse:
• Finding the carhire place at the airport was relatively painless. • Thankfully, there's a wide selection of search tools to make the task relatively painless.
be plain sailing
British English , be smooth sailing American English to be easy and with no problems that you have to deal with:
• Things should be plain sailing from now on.
informal phrases meaning very easy
be a piece of cake
informal to be very easy to do, especially compared to doing something else:
• This test was a piece of cake compared to the last one.
be child’s play
informal to be surprisingly easy, or much easier than something else which is very difficult or dangerous:
• Getting people’s credit card details is child’s play when you know how to do it. • Climbing in England is child’s play compared to climbing in the Himalayas.
be a breeze
informal ( also be a doddle British English ) to be very easy to do:
• The software is a doddle to use. • The check-in process was a breeze.
it’s not rocket science
informal used when saying that something is very easy to do or understand, and you do not need to be intelligent to do it:
• Making your PC run faster isn’t exactly rocket science.
Longman-Thesaurus
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adj.
simple:
For us it was an easy decision.
adj.
informal:
He had an easy and relaxed manner.
Simple Definitions
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adj. VERBS be, look, seem, sound | become, get Life is getting easier for us. | remain | make sth These changes should make your job easier. | find sth I found the exam quite easy. ADV. extremely, really, very | enough, fairly, quite, rather, relatively It is easy enough to see how it happened. | incredibly, ridiculously, surprisingly The written test was ridiculously easy. PREP. for Writing is not easy for her. PHRASES all too easy It was all too easy to forget why we had been sent there. | the easiest thing in the world It is the easiest thing in the world to blame your parents. | be no easy task Contacting everyone was no easy task. | quick and easy a book designed for quick and easy reference
Oxford Collocations Dictionary