flat as a pancake
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(as) flat as a pancake
1. Physically squashed or flattened. I forgot that I had a muffin in my bag, and it's flat as a pancake now. My model of a volcano is as flat as a pancake now that you've sat on it! Pretty sure that bug is dead now—I stepped on it, and it looks flat as a pancake.
2. euphemism, rude Having very small breasts. Don't worry if it takes a little longer than usual for your chest to develop. I was flat as a board until I was nearly 16! I heard that Amanda's actually flat as a pancake and just wears push-up bras all the time. I feel like these bra companies cater only to the average woman. If you have huge boobs or you're flat as a pancake, good luck finding something that fits!
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flat as a pancake
Extremely level, especially too much so. For example, There are no hills; this terrain is flat as a pancake. This simile dates from the 1500s and has survived its contemporary, flat as a flounder. It is sometimes used, either disparagingly or ruefully, to describe a small-breasted woman.
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flat as a pancake
If something is as flat as a pancake, it is very flat. There was barely a breeze and the water was as flat as a pancake. Could he really put up interest rates now? With the economy flat as a pancake and the housing market in crisis?
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flat as a pancake
completely flat.Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
(as) flat as a ˈpancake
(informal) completely flat: There are one or two hills in Norfolk, but otherwise the landscape is as flat as a pancake.Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary © Farlex 2017
flat as a pancake
Exceedingly flat, sometimes excessively so. This simile has been around since the sixteenth century, appearing in Nicholas Udall’s translation of Erasmus (1542) and Henry Porter’s play The Two Angrie Women of Abington (1599, 2.3). Morever, it survived and replaced the equally old flat as a flounder and is still frequently used today, often in deprecating fashion to describe a woman’s lack of mammary endowment.
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