Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

like shooting fish in a barrel

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables: like shoot-ing -fish in a bar-rel
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

25

Letters

4

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

prep_phrase

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

Example Sentences

"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."

Phrases

duck soup piece of cake piece of piss turkey shoot walk in the park

Frequently Paired Words

bagatelle breeze cakewalk cinch doddle duck soup piece of cake piece of piss

Synonyms

easy as pie like taking candy from a baby

Questions

What does like shooting fish in a barrel mean?: Extremely easy; sometimes with a connotation of triumph but at other times with a connotation of being meaningless and unsatisfying.

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