easy pickings

plural noun

: things that are easy to get

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So Ossoff should be easy pickings for the GOP. — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 1 Aug. 2025 Picking Fruit Off the Ground Apples that have fallen to the ground are easy pickings, right? — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Aug. 2025 The flightless birds were easy pickings for invasive predators, including house cats, dogs and weasel-like stoats—the fruity eau de Kākāpō is pungent enough that even humans can track them by scent. — Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2026 Most seasons slow down massively in the home stretch, but this one, with its unpredictable flips, has sustained its pace even longer than last year’s, when everybody not named Chelsie ended up a puppet or easy pickings. — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for easy pickings

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“Easy pickings.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/easy%20pickings. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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