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like a ripe plum

like a ripe plum prepositional phrase: with no effort on one's part.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (simile) With no effort on one's part.
    • I could pull it off, like a bird, single handed; but with you, in a manner of speaking, always round the corner, and ready to help me with your sage counsel, failure is impossible. She is like a ripe plum hanging on the tree, Billy .1877, James Greenwood, Dick Temple, page 195
    • If they can bring Round Pond to her knees, the rest of the world will fall like a ripe plum.1976 ·, James A. McCracken, Innocents at Sea, page 193

Examples of like a ripe plum in a sentence

  • She was like a ripe plum falling into my hand!1997, Linda Chaikin, The Pirate and His Lady:
  • She isn't going to just fall into your lap like a ripe plum, my boy,” the duke insisted.2010, Adrienne Basso, How to Seduce a Sinner, page 43:
  • You said yourself he'd only to wait and the mine would have dropped into his lap like a ripe plum.2013, John Fletcher, A Far Country:

Questions about like a ripe plum

What does like a ripe plum mean?
Like a ripe plum means with no effort on one's part.
How do you use like a ripe plum in a sentence?
She was like a ripe plum falling into my hand!
What part of speech is like a ripe plum?
Like a ripe plum is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like a ripe plum in the dictionary

  1. like a plasterer's radio
  2. like a raped ape
  3. like a rat from a sinking ship
  4. like a rat up a drain
  5. like a rat up a drainpipe
  6. like a ripe plum
  7. like a scalded cat
  8. like a scalded dog
  9. like a shot
  10. like a spare prick at a wedding
  11. like a stuck pig

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