In the Early days Grocery Stores were not self-serve and the cans of corn would be stacked at the top. Store owners would use a stick to knock down the can and catch them. It was an easy catch and so an easy catch of a fly ball became just a "Can Of Corn".
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The United States produces over half of the corn grown in the world, and all of the popcorn in the world.
maize (what you call corn) originates from Mexico while wheat originates from the middle east (Israel and surrounding countries)
The expression "a hole in one" came from, on a golf course, when someone would take only one shot to get it into the hole.
All ready would come first because L comes before R in the alphabet. If you had something such as acorn and a corn, a corn would come first because a space comes before any letter.
The full expression is: like a (lightning) bolt from the blue, meaning the rare instance of a bolt of lightning that strikes a long way from its cloudy source, seemingly out of a clear blue sky.