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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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As part of the Don't Let Thieves Steal Your Christmas campaign, officers are advising homeowners that thieves are always on the lookout for easy pickings so not to keep their gifts on display.
Car thieves and opportunists are sometimes out and about very early in the mornings, looking for easy pickings.
Where once the ducks, swans and herons stood, There's only webbed footprints baked in the mud And fresh water mussels drowning in air Easy pickings for the predator They're draining the lake.
 
 
 
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