like a knife through butter

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like a knife through butter

(simile) With great ease and effectiveness.
Synonym: like a hot knife through butter

Translations[edit]

with great ease

Finnish: kuin kuuma veitsi voihin
German: wie durch Butter (only with verbs of cutting or passing through)

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