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

The trio proposes that rather than being “flat as a pancake,” as standard lensing models assume, Abell 3827 is acting as a thicker, more three-dimensional lens with correspondingly stronger aberrations on its projected fuzzy wreath of images.

From Scientific American

They’re bucolic bits of Vermont countryside, flat as a pancake and home to about 7,300 people, according to the 2020 Census.

From Washington Post

The stock market was, despite gyrations, flat as a pancake and about as sexy as toenail fungus: The Dow Jones industrial average stood at 839 at the end of 1970 and at the end of 1979 it was … 839.

From Washington Post

“So maybe Oumuamua was consistent with a cookie when we saw it, but will soon be literally as flat as a pancake,” Desch said in an email.

From Seattle Times

But, unfortunately and ironically, the multibillionaire scion of the fabulously wealthy Pritzker family finds himself in a state of financial embarrassment thanks to the fact that Illinois is, for all intents and purposes, busted flat as a pancake.

From Washington Times