“can of corn” … er, acorns. This is a baseball idiom meaning a routine fly-ball. In the 19th-century, clerks at general stores were looking for an easier way to reach canned goods on high shelves, started using long sticks to pull them down. After dropping the cans toward them, they would catch them in their aprons – like a ‘fly-ball’
“When life gives you lemons. Make yourself a screwdriver.”
Reba McEntire