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	Pronounced	Usage
Gilad	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Ujarak	-	Native American, Inuit
Hubbard	['hʌbəd]
Vano	-	Georgian
Bo (1)	-	Swedish, Danish
Darya (2)	-	Persian