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.
See also: play

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."
See also: play

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Garnet['ga:nit]
DeneDEENEnglish (Rare)
Toribioto-REE-byoSpanish
Jordanes-Ancient Germanic
Aelius-Ancient Roman
VenkaVEN-kahEsperanto