1) The job was easy as pie, and we finished up an hour early.
2) You want Mom to give you fifty dollars? Easy as pie. Just tell her you need to buy some new shoes.
Etymology: 'Pie' is a tasty, sweet dish that is easy to make, and even easier to eat.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.