If a job or action is easy, you can do it without difficulty or effort, because it is not complicated and causes no problems.

If you describe an action or activity as easy, you mean that it is done in a confident, relaxed way. If someone is easy about something, they feel relaxed and confident about it.

If you say that someone has an easy life, you mean that they live comfortably without any problems or worries.

If you say that something is easy or too easy, you are criticizing someone because they have done the most obvious or least difficult thing, and have not considered the situation carefully enough.

You use easy in expressions such as easy on the ear or easy on the eye when you are describing things that are pleasant and that do not need much effort to be enjoyed or done.

If you describe someone or something as easy prey or as an easy target, you mean that they can easily be attacked or criticized.

You use easy come, easy go to indicate that the person you are talking about does not care much about money and possessions.

If you say 'Easy does it', you are telling someone to be careful and not to use too much effort, especially when they are moving something large and awkward.

If you tell someone to go easy on something, you are telling them to use only a small amount of it.

If you tell someone to go easy on, or be easy on, a particular person, you are telling them not to punish or treat that person very severely.

If you say that something is easier said than done, you are emphasizing that although it sounds like a good idea in theory, you think it would be difficult to actually do it.

If someone tells you to take it easy or take things easy, they mean that you should relax and not do very much at all.