child's play
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Patterned after German Kinderspiel, French jeu d’enfant, Italian gioco da bambini, Italian gioco da ragazzi.
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Noun[edit]
- (idiomatic) Something particularly simple or easy.
- Compared to my last job, this is child's play.
- 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
- I knew something of the railway engineer's uncanny genius for finding a path through such barriers if any path existed; yet I also knew the path would be no child's play.
- 1914, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)[1], Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 51:
- And then he'd crow as if he thought that child's play — The only fun he had. I've heard them say, though, They found a way to put a stop to it. He was before my time—I never saw him; But the pen stayed exactly as it was There in the upper chamber in the ell, A sort of catch-all full of attic clutter. […]
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: the play of a child.
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Translations[edit]
something particularly simple or easy
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