Meaning of Idiom ‘Flat as a Pancake’
1. Extremely level or flat, as in a landscape.
2. Entirely squashed for flattened.
3. Rude way to describe a woman with small breasts (also, flat as a board).
4. Extremely low or in a reduced state; to perform badly.
Sentence Examples
“The terrain in that area is as flat as a pancake with the strangest twisted tree.”
“They put my bread under a bunch of heavy cans and it’s smashed as flat as a pancake.”
“He stepped on that poor mouse and squished it flat as a pancake.”
“The weather was so calm today, the water was flat as a pancake.”
“I was flat as a pancake until I was almost out of high school,” said mom.
We expected cases to increase in the wintertime and then for that to subside starting in early spring and so forth, and there was nothing like that in the data,” LoBello told me of the study they published in 2016. “It was just flat as a pancake all the way through the year. — The Atlantic, March 13, 2023
In a must-win game to have any hope of a NCAA Tournament bid, the team came out flat as a pancake. — Jeff Ostach, March 8, 2023
“Both my front tires are as flat as a pancake. I don’t know what happened.”
Origin of Flat as a Pancake
Used since the 1500s. This idiom survives a contemporary variation, flat as a flounder.
