flat as a pancake

(as) flat as a pancake

Physically squashed or flattened. I forgot that I had a muffin in my bag, and it's flat as a pancake now. My model of a volcano is as flat as a pancake now that you've sat on it!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

flat as a pancake

Extremely level, especially too much so. For example, There are no hills; this terrain is flat as a pancake. This simile dates from the 1500s and has survived its contemporary, flat as a flounder. It is sometimes used, either disparagingly or ruefully, to describe a small-breasted woman.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

flat as a pancake

If something is as flat as a pancake, it is very flat. There was barely a breeze and the water was as flat as a pancake. Could he really put up interest rates now? With the economy flat as a pancake and the housing market in crisis?
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Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

flat as a pancake

completely flat.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

(as) flat as a ˈpancake

(informal) completely flat: There are one or two hills in Norfolk, but otherwise the landscape is as flat as a pancake.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

flat as a pancake

Exceedingly flat, sometimes excessively so. This simile has been around since the sixteenth century, appearing in Nicholas Udall’s translation of Erasmus (1542) and Henry Porter’s play The Two Angrie Women of Abington (1599, 2.3). Morever, it survived and replaced the equally old flat as a flounder and is still frequently used today, often in deprecating fashion to describe a woman’s lack of mammary endowment.
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • (as) flat as a pancake
  • pancake
  • be (as) flat as a pancake
  • flat as a board
  • (as) flat as a board
  • flat
  • (as) flat as a strap
  • strap
  • in no time flat
  • in nothing flat
References in periodicals archive
This work, as the dust-jacket blurb that appears under the de rigueur photograph of Jong grinning like a lunatic notes, is the author's "first full-length work of nonfiction." It purports, as the author explains in her introduction, to be "an unconventional book--part memoir, part critical study, part biography, part exploration of sexual politics in our time." It is, as noted above, like most of Jong's full-length works of fiction, insofar as such merits as it does possess are ultimately squashed flat as a pancake by the dead weight of the author's self-enchantment.
The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller
The judges cooked up scathing comments - with Arlene Phillips calling his footwork "as flat as a pancake".
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A spokesman explained: "With little activity for the past six months, prices are as flat as a pancake. The market has truly bottomed out."
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