flat as a pancake

idiom

informal
: very flat
The land there is (as) flat as a pancake.
The tire was flat as a pancake.

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Industrial Production is flat as a pancake and has been so for nearly two years. Robert Barone, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024 In a nod to Stanford economist Nick Bloom, Pollak says that aside from big tech companies insistent on 2023 being the year of efficiency and cost-cutting, employment levels have stayed flat as a pancake. Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023 Campbell laughed as he was brought down and landed as flat as a pancake as the board shot behind them. Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023 That region is flat as a pancake and sub-tropical vegetation. Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023 Campbell laughed as he was brought down and landed as flat as a pancake as the board shot behind them. Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 27 June 2023 The deeply unpopular theory erroneously posits that the planet is flat as a pancake and (according to many) contained beneath a dome. Kelly Weill, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2022 That region is flat as a pancake and sub-tropical vegetation. Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023 Where Kiernan Shipka had the luxury of a range of emotions to play with as Sabrina, Ortega has to play Wednesday flat as a pancake. Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 18 Nov. 2022

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