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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Easy
 
  Easy as for a blackbird to whistle.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Easy as a conjurer swallowing a poker.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Easy as breathing.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Easy as counting the blossoms on a century plant.
            —Anonymous		  4
  As easy as finding reasons why other people should be patient.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Easy as for a dog to lick a dish.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Easy as getting money in a letter.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Easy as peeling a hard boiled egg.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Easy as pie.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Easy as robbing a child’s bank.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Easy as to say “Jack Robinson.” Anonymous  11
  Easy as winking.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Easy as an old shoe.
            —Robert Browning		  13
  Shall be as easy as going down the river in a boat.
            —Dante		  14
  As easy as for you to take a drink.
            —John Davidson		  15
  Easy, as blinding a chicken on the roost with a torch.
            —Will N. Harben		  16
  Easy as forgetting oaths.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  17
  Easy as swan could bear the snowy fleece.
            —Homer (Pope)		  18
  As aisy as winter shakes leaves from the trees.
            —Samuel Lover		  19
  As easy as a man dyin’ wi’ due warnin’.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  20
  Easy as for the grass to be green.
            —James Russell Lowell		  21
  Easy as kissing.
            —James Russell Lowell		  22
  Easy as loving.
            —James Russell Lowell		  23
  About as easy as to gather a bag of feathers thrown to the four winds.
            —Sydney Munden		  24
  With as much ease as the sun outshines and dims the stars with his meridian rays.
            —François Rabelais		  25
  Easy as shelling peas.
            —Charles Reade		  26
  Easy as a down-bed.
            —William Shakespeare		  27
  Easy as lying.
            —William Shakespeare		  28
  Easy as to set dogs on sheep.
            —William Shakespeare		  29
  Easy as thanks.
            —William Shakespeare		  30
  For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
            —New Testament		  31
  With as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers.
            —Izaak Walton		  32
  Easy as fitting a new harness to an old horse.
            —Thomas Watson		  33
 
 
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