Nice and easy... apple pie.

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A slice of apple pie. It is not absolutely certain when or where the phrase ‘as easy as pie’ came into use, though mid-nineteenth-century America would be a respectable guess. An early sibling was ‘As nice as pie’; Mark Twain substituted other adjectives such as ‘polite’. Pie is always pleasant and comforting.

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Exercises

Easy as Pie

Complete these traditional comparisons, from pies to Punch.

Introduction

English has a number of traditional comparisons in the form ‘As ... as ...’. They include ‘As easy as pie’, meaning ‘very easy’. Complete the proverbial comparisons below with a suitable word. We have given some suggestions underneath; you may be able to think of others.

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