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child's play
child's play
something very easy to do. The test was child's play to those who took good notes. Finding the right street was child's play with a map.
child's play
Something easily done, a trivial matter. For example, Finding the answer was child's play for Robert, or The fight we had was child's play compared to the one I had with my mother! Originating in the early 1300s as child's game, the idiom was already used in its present form by Chaucer in The Merchant's Tale: "It is no child's play to take a wife."
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Florian | | FLO-ree-ahn (German), FLAWR-yahn (Polish) | German, Polish, French |
Cade | | KAYD | English |
Eneida | | - | Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish (Latin American) |
Gema | | - | Spanish |
Luann | | loo-AN | English |
Genesis | | JEN-ə-sis | English (Modern) |