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child's play

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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