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be easy meat
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be easy meat  (British & Australian informal) also be an easy mark (American)
someone or something that is easy meat is easy to beat, criticize, or trick United were easy meat in the semifinal on Wednesday. The elderly living alone are an easy mark for con-men. (British & Australian informal)
See also: easy, meat


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Art experts have suggested that the robbers took advantage of what appeared to be an easy mark — a low-security museum — without knowing much about art or how difficult it can be to sell such well-known works.
Defending last week's settlement of a harassment and hazing case involving a former Los Angeles firefighter, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday said the city sent a message that it would not be an easy mark for payouts.
But it was always going to be an easy mark for unruly students--or, nowadays, unruly professors--flushed with the shocking and permanently disillusioning discovery that, say, both the Greeks and the Founding Fathers owned slaves.
 
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