Etymology

easy peasy lemon squeezy

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The story

An extended form of easy peasy, coined either in the 1950s in a commercial for Sqezy (a British detergent brand which was sold in a squeeze bottle and had a lemon scent), or else not until the 1980s when it was first used among British children as slang.

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