pancake

Related to pancake: buttermilk pancake, pancake batter

(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!
See also: flat, pancake

be (as) flat as a pancake

slang To be 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!
See also: flat, pancake
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

*flat as a board

 and *flat as a pancake
Cliché very flat. (Also used to describe someone's chest or abdomen, referring to well-developed abdominal muscles or small or nearly absent breasts or pectoral muscles-in either sex. *Also: as ~.) Jane was flat as a board until she was sixteen, when she suddenly blossomed. Lucy can mash an aluminum can flat as a pancake with one blow from her heel.
See also: board, flat
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

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.
See also: flat, pancake
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?
See also: flat, pancake
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

flat as a pancake

completely flat.
See also: flat, pancake
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.
See also: flat, pancake
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.
See also: flat, pancake
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • (as) flat as a pancake
  • flat as a pancake
  • be (as) flat as a pancake
  • (as) flat as a board
  • flat as a board
  • flat
  • (as) flat as a strap
  • strap
  • in no time flat
  • in nothing flat
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Pour in the pancake batter and transfer to the oven.
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