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like shelling peas

like shelling peas prepositional phrase: repetitive, but very easy.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (simile) Repetitive, but very easy.
    • 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 14
    • At school he could deliver straight A's like shelling peas.2007, Peter Arden, Supergeek, page 74

Synonyms of like shelling peas

Questions about like shelling peas

What does like shelling peas mean?
Like shelling peas means repetitive, but very easy.
What part of speech is like shelling peas?
Like shelling peas is a prepositional phrase.

Words near like shelling peas in the dictionary

  1. like rats in a sack
  2. like real
  3. like riding a bike
  4. like robbing a baby
  5. like rolling off a log
  6. like shelling peas
  7. like shit
  8. like shit through a goose
  9. like shooting fish in a barrel
  10. like sin
  11. like sixty

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