easy as breathing

easy as breathing
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((as) easy as breathing (as falling или rolling off a log, as kiss my или your hand, as lying, as shelling peas или as winking; тж. easy as pie, easy as damn it; австрал. easy as apple-pie или as tea-drinking))
легче лёгкого, пустяковое дело, сущие пустяки, пара пустяков, проще простого [easy as pie первонач. амер.]; см. тж. easy as ABC

If you can't write a play no one can teach you, and if you can it's as easy as falling off a log. (W. S. Maugham, ‘On a Chinese Screen’, ch. XLVIII) — Если вы не умеете писать пьес, этому вас никто научить не может, а если умеете, тогда это для вас пустяки.

‘Is it hard to learn?’ ‘Easy as kiss your hand. I can explain the whole thing in a minute.’ (R. Greenwood, ‘Mr. Bunting’, ch. XIV) — - А трудно выучиться водить машину? - Проще простого. Сейчас я тебе все объясню.

You could go to Plymouth in her as easy as winking. (A. Christie, ‘And Then There Were None’, ch. II) — Вы запросто доберетесь на этой лодке до Плимута.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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