like a ripe plum

like a ripe plum

Easily; with very little resistance. After a few months of being cut off from supplies, the city will fall into our hands like a ripe plum.
See also: like, plum, ripe
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

like a ripe plum (or ripe plums)

used to convey that something can be obtained with little or no effort.
See also: like, plum, ripe
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See also:
  • like a (hot) knife through butter
  • like a hot knife through butter
  • like a knife through butter
  • ripe old age
  • ripe
  • at a/the ripe old age
  • to a/the ripe old age
  • at/to a ripe old age
  • easy come, easy go
  • lightly