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Idioms and Phrases

Extremely level, especially too much so. For example, There are no hills; this terrain is flat as a pancake . This simile dates from the 1500s and has survived its contemporary, flat as a flounder . It is sometimes used, either disparagingly or ruefully, to describe a small-breasted woman.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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