Another expression is “as easy as shooting fish in a barrel”. It is hard to imagine why anyone would want to shoot fish in a barrel. But, clearly, fish in a barrel would be much easier to shoot than fish in a stream.

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　　Sometimes, things that come to us easily, also leave us just as easily. In fact, there is an expression —“easy come, easy go”—that recognizes this.

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　　. Easy come, easy go.

　　When life itself is easy, when you have no cares or problems, you are on “Easy Street”. Everyone wants to live on that imaginary street.

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　　. It means to treat a person kindly or gently, especially in a situation where you might be expected to be angry with him. A wife might urge her husband to “go easy on” their son, because the boy did not mean to damage the car.

　　A. Every people has its own way of saying things, its own special expressions.

　　B. Another “easy” expression is to “go easy on a person”.

　　C. In fact, it would be as easy as “falling off a log”.

　　D. You may win a lot of money in a lottery, then spend it all in a few days.

　　E. And one last expression, one that means do not worry or work too hard.

　　F. There are several other expressions that mean the same thing.

　　G. If you ever tried to walk on a fallen tree log, you understand what the expression means.

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