adjective🎓 English idiom

easy-peasy

extremely easy or trivial to do

What it means

Easy-peasy is a childlike, playful way of saying something is very simple or requires no real effort. It is often extended to 'easy-peasy lemon-squeezy' for extra emphasis, and is common in casual or family contexts.

Examples

  • Just press the green button, easy-peasy.
  • The recipe looked hard but it was easy-peasy.
  • Easy-peasy, I finished the whole quiz in five minutes.
  • Setting up the new phone was easy-peasy lemon-squeezy.

Where it comes from

British children's slang from the mid-20th century, popularized by a 1970s UK Lemon Squeezy detergent advert. The rhyming form mimics how kids playfully extend words.

Related idioms

#tip-top#super-duper#okey-dokey#chit-chat

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