BE LIKE SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL

Meaning of BE LIKE SHOOTING FISH IN A BARREL in English

( informal ) used to emphasize how easy it is to do sth :

What do you mean you can't do it? It'll be like shooting fish in a barrel!

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SHOOTING — Sport of gun marksmanship. It typically involves firing at targets with pistols , and shotguns . World championship competitions are …
Английский словарь Британика
FISH — I Any of more than 24,000 species of cold-blooded vertebrate s found worldwide in fresh and salt water. Living species …
Английский словарь Британика
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
IN — I. (|)in, ən; usu ə n after t, d, s, or z as in “split in two”, often ə m …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
BARREL — I. ˈbarəl also ˈber- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English barell, barel, from Middle French baril 1. : a …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SHOOTING — ˈshüd.]iŋ, -üt], ]ēŋ\ noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English sheting, shoting, shuting, from gerund of sheten, shoten, shuten to …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
SHOOTING — (a.) Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
Английский словарь Webster
SHOOTING — (n.) The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of …
Английский словарь Webster
SHOOTING — ( n. ) The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHOOTING — ( a. ) Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
LIKE — like 1 — liker , n. /luyk/ , adj., ( Poetic ) liker, likest , prep., adv., conj., n., v., …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
FISH — — fishless , adj. /fish/ , n. , pl. ( esp. collectively ) fish , ( esp. referring to two …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BARREL — /bar"euhl/ , n. , v. , barreled, barreling or ( esp. Brit. ) barrelled, barrelling . n. 1. a cylindrical …
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHOOTING — adj of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting. 2. shooting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of shoot. 3. shooting ·noun a …
Webster English vocab
LIKE — adj likely; probably. 2. like ·adj in a like or similar manner. 3. like ·vi to be pleased; to choose. …
Webster English vocab
FISH — pl of fish. 2. fish ·noun the flesh of fish, used as food. 3. fish ·noun a counter, used in …
Webster English vocab
BARREL — noun a jar. 2. barrel ·noun the hollow basal part of a feather. 3. barrel ·vt to put or to …
Webster English vocab
FISH — [fish] n, pl fish or fish.es often attrib [ME, fr. OE fisc; akin to OHG fisc fish, L piscis] (bef. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BARREL — [bar.rel] n [ME barel, fr. MF baril] (14c) 1: a round bulging vessel of greater length than breadth that is …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SHOOTING — the sport of firing at targets of various kinds with rifles, handguns (pistols and revolvers), and shotguns as an exercise …
Britannica English vocabulary
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Britannica English vocabulary
BARREL — large, bulging cylindrical container of sturdy construction traditionally made from wooden staves and wooden or metal hoops. The term is …
Britannica English vocabulary
BARREL — barrel BrE AmE ˈbær ə l ˈber- ▷ barrel|ed, ~led d ▷ barrel|ing, ~ling ɪŋ ▷ barrel|s z ▶ ˈ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SHOOTING — / ˈʃuːtɪŋ; NAmE / noun 1. [ C ] a situation in which a person is shot with a gun …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
LIKE — / laɪk; NAmE / preposition , verb , conjunction , noun , adjective , adverb ■ preposition 1. similar to …
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BARREL — / ˈbærəl; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. a large round container, usually made of wood or metal, …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHOOTING — shoot ‧ ing /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/ BrE AmE noun 1 . [countable] a situation in which someone is injured or killed by …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
LIKE — I. like 1 S1 W1 /laɪk/ BrE AmE preposition [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Origin: ⇨ ↑ like 6 ] 1 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BARREL — I. bar ‧ rel 1 /ˈbærəl/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1200-1300 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: baril …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SHOOTING — n. & adj. --n. 1 the act or an instance of shooting. 2 a the right of shooting over an …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
LIKE — adj., prep., adv., conj., & n. --adj. (often governing a noun as if a transitive participle such as resembling) (more …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FISH — n. & v. --n. (pl. same or fishes) 1 a vertebrate cold-blooded animal with gills and fins living wholly in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BARREL — n. & v. --n. 1 a cylindrical container usu. bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SHOOTING — n. & adj. n. 1 the act or an instance of shooting. 2 a the right of shooting over an …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
LIKE — adj., prep., adv., conj., & n. adj. (often governing a noun as if a transitive participle such as resembling) (more …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FISH — n. & v. n. (pl. same or fishes) 1 a vertebrate cold-blooded animal with gills and fins living wholly in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BARREL — n. & v. n. 1 a cylindrical container usu. bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SHOOTING — n. & adj. --n. 1. the act or an instance of shooting. 2 a the right of shooting over an …
Oxford English vocab
LIKE — 1. adj., prep., adv., conj., & n. --adj. (often governing a noun as if a transitive participle such as resembling) …
Oxford English vocab
FISH — 1. n. & v. --n. (pl. same or fishes) 1. a vertebrate cold-blooded animal with gills and fins living wholly …
Oxford English vocab
BARREL — n. & v. --n. 1. a cylindrical container usu. bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with …
Oxford English vocab
LIKE — I. PREPOSITION AND CONJUNCTION USES /laɪk, laɪk/ ( likes) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHOOTING — ( shootings) 1. A shooting is an occasion when someone is killed or injured by being shot with a gun. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FISH — ( fish, or fishes, fishes, fishing, fished) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BARREL — ( barrels, barrelling, barrelled) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Note: in AM, …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHOOTING — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a shooting pain (= a severe pain that goes from one part of your body …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
FISH — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a fish pond a fishing boat ▪ The fishing boats go out to sea …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BARREL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a barrel of beer (= a large container containing beer ) ▪ He bought …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SHOOTING — [noun] [U]She'd heard some shooting in the night and a noise that sounded like a bomb exploding.A shooting can be …
Cambridge English vocab
SHOOTING — n. Sport of gun marksmanship. It typically involves firing at targets with rifles , pistols , and shotguns . World …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
FISH — n. fish farming fish duck fish hawk archer fish blind fish bony fish fish poisoning Fish Hamilton flying fish Great …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SHOOTING — Synonyms and related words : acute, acute pain, afflictive, agonizing, antiaircraft fire, archery, atrocious, bane, beheading, bite, biting, blood, bloodletting, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FISH — Synonyms and related words : C, C-note, Chinook salmon, G, G-note, Loch Ness monster, Sunapee trout, aerial torpedo, albacore, alevin, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SHOOTING — I. noun Shooting is used before these nouns: ↑ death , ↑ incident , ↑ jacket , ↑ range , …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
LIKE — See ↑ ENJOY 1, ↑ EXAMPLE 3, ↑ LIKE 1,7, ↑ WAY 8 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be just like • …
Longman Activator English vocab
LIKE — INDEX: things 1. to like something 2. to like something very much 3. to like something that could be bad …
Longman Activator English vocab
FISH — n. 25B6; noun . See list. piscine, ichthyo-. 25B6; verb some people were fishing in the lake : GO FISHING, …
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