You know, when I was younger, I used to make problems for myself, like it was too easy.
They selected an “easy mark” who turned out to be an off-duty NYC Housing Authority cop named James Carragher.
This will make it easy to pour the flour mixture into the stand mixer.
It is all too easy to be despondent in the face of what seems like the endless capacity of evil to reinvent itself.
Most people know the Universal Life Church as a quick and easy place to get ordained without leaving your couch.
That was the way with his pa—he was a different man after things got to comin' too easy fur him.
Miss Milbrey wondered somewhat; but her mind was easy, for her resolution had been taken.
Her heart seemed not easy to reach; her impulses were not inflammable.
"It'll be no easy matter marrying that girl," he told Mrs. Drelmer.
Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found.
c.1200, "at ease," from Old French aisie "comfortable, at ease, rich, well-off" (Modern French aisé), past participle of aisier "to put at ease," from aise (see ease).
Sense of "not difficult to deal with" is mid-14c.; of conditions, "comfortable," late 14c. The concept of "not difficult" was expressed in Old English and early Middle English by eaþe (adv.), ieþe (adj.), apparently common West Germanic, but of disputed origin. Easy Street first printed 1901 in "Peck's Red-Headed Boy." Easy money attested by 1896; to take it easy "relax" is from 1867; easy does it recorded by 1891. Easy rider (1912) was U.S. black slang for "sexually satisfying lover." The easy listening radio format is from 1965, defined by William Safire (in 1986) as, "the music of the 60's played in the 80's with the style of the 40's." Related: Easier; easiest.
Related Terms
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