The phrase "as a pea" is not a standard or commonly used expression in written English.
It may be used in a context where one is comparing something to a pea, but without additional context, its meaning is unclear.
Example: "She was as quiet as a pea, blending into the background during the meeting."
Alternatives: "as quiet as a mouse" or "as still as a statue."
Something strange happened then: the baby that I had imagined as a pea or an avocado pit for weeks and weeks started kicking.
They can be as small as a pea or as big as a small plum, and range in color from green to lavender to a deep red.
Varieties can grow as small as a pea – these are common in Thai curries and have a bitter flavour – or as large as a pawpaw.
One Halloween, though, Ms. Roth said, Ms. Chan dressed up as a pea pod and handed out candy to neighborhood children, including hers.
His shots of Charing Cross Road are highly atmospheric, taken on dark rainy nights and in the type of dense smog known as a "pea souper".
Perfectly cooked beans -- purple, white and brown -- as big as your thumb and as small as a pea, are mixed with thinly sliced red onion and then bathed in a lusciously fragrant olive oil.
I still remember us standing on the pavement outside Jollees Cabaret Club as the rain slanted down in sheets, then being ushered in through some double doors to be met with a miasma of fag smoke as thick as a pea-souper and a gigantic beery roar as Eric Bristow hit a double.
Not to be confused with the power of positive thinking, the bright side that I'm talking about has to do with finding the good--whether it's as big as a barn or as small as a pea--within the bad and proceeding from there.
The characteristic fruit of most legumes is a pod (legume) consisting, in essence, of an ovary that is a tightly folded leaf, as in a pea pod.
For example, it did not carry Hayes's view of the Mail columnist: "the ghastly Richard Littlejohn", whom he calls "an arrogant bully with a brain the size of a pea" (as Hugh Muir also recorded in his diary on Wednesday).
As a result, a PEA is not allowed to be firmly fixed to the mechanism during the installation.
