Meaning of like shooting fish in a barrel | Babel Free

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Extremely easy; sometimes with a connotation of triumph but at other times with a connotation of being meaningless and unsatisfying.

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“Opponents contend that the lumbering creatures are so easy to shoot that a moose hunt is a slaughter, not a sport. "It's like shooting fish in a barrel," they say.”

“For a photographer, shooting twins at the annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, must be like shooting fish in a barrel.”

“Standing on those long straight roads with the speed detection gun was like shooting fish in a barrel, somebody said.”

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