I can do it at the push of a button. And you?

Today’s English
August 12th, 2017

Yesterday was difficult but today is going to be easy.  Any work that requires less amount of skill, effort and time is easy, simple, effortless,  trouble-free, idiot-proof, child’s play, child’s word, easy-peasy, duck-soup, a piece of cake, as easy as ABC, manageable, compliant and user-friendly.

1. Don't worry. Our products come out with idiot-proof instructions.
2. It’s just duck soup and I can do it.
3. You may find it difficult but it’s child’s play to him.
4. Life has never been a piece of cake like this.

If yours is “Take it easy policy", you are often natural, sociable, calm, serene, undisturbed, trouble-free, friendly, amiable, quiet, relaxed, easy-going,  peaceful and unworried.  Instead of saying 'take it easy', you can say "be at leisure", take your ease, feel at home, enjoy yourself, entertain yourself, hang loose, stay loose, let it all hang out, take things easy, take a cold shower, relax, chill out and kick back.

1. It’s time to enjoy yourself.  Why do you worry about it?
2. Don’t bother about other’s comments.  Let it all hang out.
3. Hang loose!  Don’t take everything seriously.
4. His life’s always easy-going wherever he is.
5. What about her dressing? Are you disturbed? Yes, I have to take a cold shower.

If you did something very easily, you can say that you did it just “at the push of a button” or “at the stroke of a pen.”   The expression “one hand tied behind your back" also means the same.

1. You can’t do everything at the push of a button, mind it.
2. If a principal/manager/C.M wants to change everything, they can do it just at the stroke of a pen.
3. She’s capable of doing everything just with one hand tied behind her back.

“Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.
Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work.
- Toba Beta, “My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut”