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easy pickings

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easy pickings
[of things] easy to get or steal; [of people] easy to get or persuade. The pickpockets found lots of easy pickings at the state fair.
See also: easy, picking


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Without them, the suckers are easy pickings for hungry predators such as bass and walleye.
Breeding seabirds that depend on them have suffered badly, travelling further and fishing for longer to find enough food to feed a family, so the shoal that we found trapped in a rock pool at the north end of the beach might have been easy pickings, but for the fact that plunge-diving into such shallow water would have been suicidal for a tern.
Although aspects of numerology have offered easy pickings for the half-baked lunatic fringse, this is not the case here: that geometry did have esoteric aspects to it in the past cannot be denied by anybody familiar with the literature (published or otherwise).
 
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