easy pickings
Example Sentences
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We are small fry by most standards, but I can imagine state lawmakers looking at us as easy pickings.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
Squirrels should be smart enough to take the easy pickings over the puzzle box.
From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026
The little caenagnathids would have been easy pickings for adolescent tyrannosaurs honing their hunting skills.
From National Geographic • Dec. 8, 2023
Those waters also provide an abundance of easy pickings for amateur hunters.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 27, 2023
Liccaro, with its corrupt regents and impoverished people, would be easy pickings.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
