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Smith was able to ease off./ Compare: LET UP(3). [easily] See: BREATHE EASILY or BREATHE FREELY. [east] See: DOWN EAST. [easy] See: FREE AND EASY, GET OFF EASY, ON EASY STREET, TAKE IT EASY or GO EASY or TAKE THINGS EASY. [easygoing]{adj.} Amiable in manner; relaxed; not excited. /Because Al has an easygoing personality, everybody loves him./ [easy as pie] See: PIECE OF CAKE. [easy come, easy go]{truncated sent.}, {informal} Something you get quickly and easily may be lost or spent just as easily. /Grandfather thought Billy should have to work for the money Father gave him, saying "Easy come, easy go."/ [easy does it]{informal} Lets do it carefully, without sudden movements and without forcing too hard or too fast; lets try to just hard enough but not too hard. /"Easy does it," said the boss as they moved the piano through the narrow doorway./ Compare: TAKE IT EASY. [easy mark]{n.} A foolishly generous person; one from whom it is easy to get money. /Bill is known to all the neighborhood beggars as an easy mark./ See: SOFT TOUCH. [easy money]{n.}, {informal} Money gained without hard work; money that requires little or no effort. /The movie rights to a successful play mean easy money to the writer of the play./ /Young people who look for easy money are usually disappointed./ [eat] See: DOG-EAT-DOG, LIVE HIGH OFF THE HOG or EAT HIGH ON THE HOG, LOOK LIKE THE CAT THAT ATE THE CANARY. [eat away]{v.} 1 ...»