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0:00 - How to Say, “Easy as pie.” 0:22 - Examples of “Easy as pie.” 1:07 - Meaning of “Easy as pie.” 1:23 - Origin of “Easy as pie.” 3:03 - More Examples of “Easy as pie.” 4:00 - Conclusion “Easy as pie.” When you hear someone say that something is “easy as pie,” or “as easy as pie,” it means that they think it’s very easy, simple, effortless, unchallenging. “Let me fix that for you, it’s easy as pie for me,” your mom might tell you when she sees you struggling to mend a hole in your jeans. Maybe it’s your first day on the job and a colleague is showing you the ropes, “It looks hard, but it’s as easy as pie! First, like this…” “I thought raising children would be easy as pie, but it’s the complete opposite!” you might be chatting with a friend. As you can see, if something is “easy as pie,” it’s undemanding, painless, nothing, straightforward, “a piece of cake”. The origin of the idiom, “easy as pie,” comes from America in 1855, starting life off as, “as nice as pie.” The idea - just as with “a piece of cake” - is that eating pie is easy, is delicious and is something you’ll readily do. You may hear people say, “as easy as pie”, or the truncated, “easy as pie”, which is probably more commonly heard as it rolls off the tongue more easily. It is human nature to gravitate toward things that are “easy as pie”, but it is often the things that are not quite so easy that are the most rewarding. Things that take years and years of learning and practice are things to be proud of, things that make you special. They’re accomplishments. Things that are “easy as pie”, however, are things that anyone can do and things that most people probably do indeed do! “It’s easy as pie to sit back and watch TV after work, but you’re not improving yourself in the slightest,” your best friend might be discussing self-help with you. Perhaps you’re at a psychology conference, “Committing to doing something productive for ten minutes each day is easy as pie, but over a year it adds up to 60 hours! In 60 hours, you could learn a language, read a book, get physically fit...” “Oh! It’s easy as pie now that I’ve gotten the hang of it,” your grandpa might be happily using computer software that you taught him. So, the next time you want to say that something is easy, simple, uncomplicated, straightforward, don’t forget to say that it’s “easy as pie”! #superduperenglishidioms #englishidioms #idioms #proverbs References: https://www.quora.com/Where-did-the-e...