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like a ripe plum

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

With no effort on one's part.

Examples

“I could pull it off, like a bird, single handed; but with you, in a manner of speaking, always round the corner, and ready to help me with your sage counsel, failure is impossible. She is like a ripe plum hanging on the tree, Billy .”
“If they can bring Round Pond to her knees, the rest of the world will fall like a ripe plum.”
She was like a ripe plum falling into my hand!”
“"Then you must seek her out! She isn't going to just fall into your lap like a ripe plum, my boy,” the duke insisted.”
You said yourself he'd only to wait and the mine would have dropped into his lap like a ripe plum.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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