like breaking sticks

English

Prepositional phrase

like breaking sticks

  1. (informal) Without any difficulty.
    Synonym: like taking candy from a baby
    • 1944, Damon Runyon, The Lacework Kid
      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.
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