flat as a pancake

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Sometimes the pitch is flat as a pancake, other times it spits like a cobra.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

That’s why I’m drawing your attention to this 1942 Pathé newsreel in which a bust of Mussolini gets crushed flat as a pancake.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2019

Then again, he was flat as a pancake today.

From Golf Digest • Sep. 30, 2018

I was always planning to reupholster or slipcover it, but I put off the project until the arms of the chair were threadbare and the bottom cushion flat as a pancake.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2018

She pulls out a few more, including a mountain bike, even though the terrain is flat as a pancake here.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina