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be (as) flat as a pancake
slang To be 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!
*flat as a board
and *flat as a pancakeCliché very flat. (Also used to describe someone's chest or abdomen, referring to well-developed abdominal muscles or small or nearly absent breasts or pectoral muscles-in either sex. *Also: as ~.) Jane was flat as a board until she was sixteen, when she suddenly blossomed. Lucy can mash an aluminum can flat as a pancake with one blow from her heel.
be as flat as a pancake
to be very flat My cake hasn't risen - it's as flat as a pancake!
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.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Iarlaith | | EER-lah | Irish |
Raphael | | ra-fa-EL (French), RAF-ee-el (English), RAY-fee-əl (English) | German, French, English, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek |
Gerlinde | | ger-LIN-də (German), kher-LIN-də (Dutch) | German, Dutch |
Andie | | ['ændi] | |
Raisa (2) | | - | Yiddish |
Nadja | | NAHT-yah (German) | German, Slovene |