hand something out like candy

== English == === Prepositional phrase === like candy (simile, informal) Freely (with no or few restrictions on distribution) and/or in large quantities. 1959, Mr. Hawkins, regarding Public Law 86-380, 86th Congress, H. R. 6904, September 24, 1959, published in 1989, Treasury, Postal Service, and general government appropriations for fiscal year 1990, hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, first session, part 4 (United States House Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations): But again, we run into this general problem. At some point you charge so much for your books that nobody uses them. [...] The staff is always on me because as Chairman I have the right to give some of these away and I'm giving them away like candy because I think they are so important to local communities. 2012, A. J. Caro, DNA 9419, page 78: You're making full-blown cures and giving them out like candy. 2020, Connie Mann, Beyond Power: "I suppose it could be. Course it could belong to any number of people, what with the feed store giving them out like candy."