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A Life Less
Ordinary
( Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz movie )
All
clear
An open and shut case ( a straightforward legal case )
As
clear
as a bell
As
clear
as crystal
As
clear
as day
As
clear
as mud
As dumb as a box of rocks
As
easy
as ABC
As
easy
as falling off a log
As
easy
as pie
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As
easy
as shelling peas
As
easy
as taking candy from a baby
As
plain
as a pikestaff
As
plain
as day
As
plain
as the nose on your face
As sweet as a nut
As thick as two short planks
Back to basics
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Basic
Instinct ( Sharon Stone movie )
Bill Stickers is
innocent
( comic response to the warning Bill stickers will be prosecuted )
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Bob's your uncle
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Brain candy
Brain dead
Break out of the
ordinary
( Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan )
Can of corn ( A baseball expression meaning a ball which is
easy
to catch )
Child's play
Clear
and present danger
Clear
blue water
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Clear
conscience
Clear
off
Clear
the air
Clear
the decks
Clear
up
Clear
your throat
Come
easy
to
Connect the dots
Crystal
clear
Dead cinch
Dead
easy
Dead from the neck up
Doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground
Doesn't know his arse from his elbow
Don't play the
innocent
Down to earth
Earth Girls Are
Easy
( Jim Carrey movie )
Easier
said than done
Easy
Rider ( Peter Fonda / Dennis Hopper movie )
Easy
access
Easy
as Dell ( Dell Computer advertising slogan )
Easy
come
easy
go
Easy
does it
Easy
meat
Easy
money
Easy
on the eyes
Easy
peasy, lemon squeezy
Easy
pickings
Easy
street
Easy
tiger
Eggs over
easy
Elementary my dear Watson ( A catchphrase from Sherlock Holmes )
Every schoolboy knows
Everything is
easier
on a Mac ( Apple Computer advertising slogan )
Free and
easy
Get
stupid
Go
easy
on him
Ground ball ( A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or
ordinary
accomplishment )
Hare brained
Hidden in
plain
sight
Hit by the
stupid
stick
I could do it in my sleep
I'm
easy
I'm with
stupid
Idiot proof
Imagine no religion, it's
easy
if you try
In
plain
sight
In the
clear
In the
clear
light of day
In words of one syllable
Innocent
until proven guilty
Intercity makes the going
easy
( British Rail advertising slogan )
It is
easier
for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God
It is
easy
to be wise after the event
It's not rocket science
It's so simple ( Polaroid advertising slogan )
It's the economy
stupid
( Political slogan )
Keep it simple
stupid
Kid's stuff
Let me make one thing perfectly
clear
Life's simple pleasures
Like shooting fish in a barrel
Living is
easy
with eyes closed ( Beatles song lyric )
Lost the plot
Lost your marbles
Loud and
clear
Low hanging fruit
Makes sensible buying simple ( Access Credit Card advertising slogan )
Mr. Midshipman
Easy
Mr. Midshipman
Easy
( Frederick Marryat book )
Nice and
easy
does it
No brainer
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No contest
No problem
No-brainer
Noble savage
Not all there
Not dealing from a full deck
Not playing with a full deck
Not the full shilling
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
On
easy
street
Out of the
clear
blue sky
Out to lunch
Penny wise, pound
foolish
Piece of cake
Piece of piss
Pig ignorant
Plain
Jane
Plain
sailing
Plain
speaking
Play softball ( A baseball expression meaning to ask
easy
questions )
Pure and simple
Purl or
plain
See you way
clear
Shit for brains
Silver bullet ( a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem )
Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair ( line from nursery rhyme )
Simple life
Simple yet effective
Simply
Red
Simply
The Best ( Tina Turner song )
Simply
the best there is ( Britvic advertising slogan )
Simply
years ahead ( Philips advertising slogan )
Sleep
easy
in your bed
Snap
decision
Snap
happy
Snap
out of it
Snap
someone's head off
Snap
to it
Snap, Crackle, and Pop ( Kellogg's Rice Krispies advertising slogan )
So
easy
to use, no wonder it's number one ( AOL advertising slogan )
Soft in the head
Somethin'
Stupid
( Frank Sinatra song )
Steer
clear
of
Stupid
is as
stupid
does
Summertime, And The Living Is
Easy
( George Gershwin song )
Summertime, and the living is
easy
Take it
easy
Take the
easy
way out
Terminally
stupid
That was
easy
( Staples advertising slogan )
The Big
Easy
The
Ordinary
Superstar ( Nickname of Johnny Rodgers )
The coast is
clear
The lights are on but there's no one at home
The man with the
foolish
grin is keeping perfectly still ( The Beatles song lyric )
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably
stupid
( Jane Austen quotation )
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the
plain
The truth is rarely pure and never simple ( Oscar Wilde quotation )
To call you
stupid
would be an insult to
stupid
people! ( line from the movie A Fish Called Wanda )
To make that tough job
easier
- you deserve M&M candy ( M&Ms advertising slogan )
Too
Easy
( Nickname of Baron Davis )
Tunnel vision
Two bricks short of a load
Two sandwiches short of a picnic
Very interesting, but
stupid
( A catchphrase from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In )
Walk in the park
Waste of space
We make it simple ( Honda advertising slogan )
You
stupid
boy! ( A catchphrase from Dad's Army )