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Easy as Rolling off a Log very, very easy; requiring little or no effort

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Doug told me that learning how to work the ceramics kiln was as easy as rolling off a log. In the United States in the 1830s, when this idiom was first used, logs were often floated down rivers from the forests to the lumber mills. Men held contests to see who could stand upright on a floating log the longest. Most men fell into the river because it's extremely difficult to remain standing on a floating log and extremely easy to fall off one. So anything that's effortless is "as easy as rolling off a log." This expression related to "easy as pie" (above).

Idiom	Easy as Rolling off a Log
Example	Doug told me that learning how to work the ceramics kiln was as easy as rolling off a log.
Meaning	very, very easy; requiring little or no effort
Origin	In the United States in the 1830s, when this idiom was first used, logs were often floated down rivers from the forests to the lumber mills. Men held contests to see who could stand upright on a floating log the longest. Most men fell into the river because it's extremely difficult to remain standing on a floating log and extremely easy to fall off one. So anything that's effortless is "as easy as rolling off a log." This expression related to "easy as pie" (above).

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