Meanings
- simileRepetitive, but very easy.
At school he could deliver straight A's like shelling peas.
2007, Peter Arden, Supergeek, page 742 more examples
Do you know that some people, no matter how much money they have or how far medical techniques improve, will never be able to have children while for others it's like shelling peas?
1996, Stephen Smith, Parentcraft, page 14They just rolled my wicket over and said it was like shelling peas.
2010, Leo McKinstry, Geoff Boycott: A Cricketing Hero, page 43Synonyms: like taking candy from a baby, like shooting fish in a barrel
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseRepetitive, but very easy.
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like shelling peas. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/like%20shelling%20peas
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