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Standing Head Means Easily Effort Suggests Find Easy

Metaphor Do that standing on your head
Question Meaning What do you mean?
Meaning

To be able to do something standing on your head means you can do it very easily, without any effort.

Question Explanation Why does it mean this?
Explanation

The saying suggests that you find something so easy that you could do it even while doing something else, such as a headstand.

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Example

“His new teacher asked him to do what she thought was a difficult exercise – to work out how many in the class were younger than the average age. He could do it standing on his head! He had always been good at maths.”

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