Word.ws English Dictionary

like breaking sticks

like breaking sticks prepositional phrase: without any difficulty.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (informal) Without any difficulty.
    • Well, Schultz is around after me again that night to take me to the house in the grove, and in fact every night for a month hand-running I play the captain and it is not long before I am beating him like breaking sticks.1944, Damon Runyon, The Lacework Kid

Synonyms of like breaking sticks

Questions about like breaking sticks

What does like breaking sticks mean?
Like breaking sticks means without any difficulty.
What part of speech is like breaking sticks?
Like breaking sticks is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like breaking sticks in the dictionary

  1. like as and
  2. like as if
  3. like as two peas
  4. like atomic clockwork
  5. like Blackpool Illuminations
  6. like breaking sticks
  7. like buggery
  8. like butter on a bald monkey
  9. like candy
  10. like cats and dogs
  11. like cheese at fourpence

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: like breaking sticks (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “like breaking sticks.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/like_breaking_sticks. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.