FLAT AS A PANCAKE
flat as a pancake: translation
*flat as a board & *flat as a pancake
Cliché 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 \flat as a pancake.) •
Jane was flat as a board until she was sixteen, when she suddenly blossomed.
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Lucy can mash an aluminum can flat as a pancake with one blow from her heel.
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{adj. phr.} Very level; very flat; having no mountains or hills. * /A great part of the American Midwest is as flat as a pancake./