easy as pie vs intricate

easy as pie

adj

  • Very easy. 

intricate

adj

  • Having a great deal of fine detail or complexity. 

verb

  • To enmesh or entangle: to cause to intricate. 

  • To become enmeshed or entangled. 

How often have the words easy as pie and intricate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )