Like Taking Candy From A Baby Edit Meaning

1.

A well-known idiom in our modernized English language, that suggests that something is very easy to do.

Examples:

1. In Mr. Lee's Calculus class, every student failed miserably all the time, except for the 10-year old curve setterover there in the corner, who handled the course like taking candy from a baby.

2. (At Chuck E. Cheese's)

Chuck E.: "Alright birthday boy Timmy, are you havin' a good time turning 6 here, or what?"

Timmy: "Sure I am! And I wanna have a whole lotta fun here! After all, this is the place where a kid can be a kid!"

Chuck E.: "Yeah sure it is! But you havn't been through the real fun yet!"

Timmy: "Whadda ya mean Chuck?"

Chuck E.: "Since I know you've been such a good boy, I have alotta things in store for ya. I will give you all the toys you want to have and I am gonna take you to alot of fun places where all happy kids belong. My restaurant is but the beginning, I know. I can guarrantee that you'll really feel like a kid in a candy store!"

Timmy: "Oh wowee Chuck, I wanna go with you!" *jumps up and down*

Michael Jackson:(mumbling to himself from inside his mouse suit)"This will surely be like taking candy from a baby. Giggidy giggidy!"

Mark H. UD author since February 2004.