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Mia Le
2020-10-30 06:10
Easy as Falling Off a Log American spoken language informal
Come on John, you're not baby anymore, eating broccoli is easy as falling off a log.
With 10 years of teaching experience, helping kids with their phonics is easy as falling off a log for Ms. Grace.
Jumping Jack 50 times in 3 minutes is easy as falling off a log for James.
'easy as falling off a log' starts with 'an adjective', therefore, it should follow 'to be'.
In the 19th century in the United States, 'easy as falling off a log' was first used alternatively for 'easy as rolling off a log'. When logs were thrown down from the forests to the rivers to send them to the lumber mills. Men decided competitions to check who could stand straight on a floating log till long duration. Most of them fell into the river as it's very hard to remain standing on a floating log.
Do you see anything wrong?
If you swallow the bait, you take something that someone offers you, or agree to do something that someone asks you to do without knowing that it is a trick or way of getting something from you.
You can't just do whatever he wants you to do. Don't swallow the bait.
