no picnic

Difficult, no fun, as in Recovering from abdominal surgery is no picnic. This expression, alluding to a picnic as a pleasant occasion, was first recorded in 1888.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jory	-	Cornish
Arafat	['a:ra:fa:t]
Vasant	-	Indian, Marathi, Gujarati
Malcolm	MAL-kəm	Scottish, English
Sharron	SHER-ən, SHAR-ən	English
Pleasance	PLEZ-ənts	English (Archaic)