child's play

Definitions

Something particularly easy or simple.

idiomatic, uncountable

Equivalents

18 more languages

Bosanskiigrarija

Cymraegchwarae bach

Ελληνικάπαιχνιδάκι

Suomilastenleikkileikinteko

हिन्दीबच्चों का खेल

Hrvatskiigrarija

Magyargyerekjáték

Íslenskaauðveldurleikur

Italianogioco da bambinigioco da ragazzi

日本語お茶の子児戯朝飯前のこと

한국어껌

Nederlandskinderspel

Polskidziecinadapikuś

Portuguêsbrincadeira de criança

Русскийигрушкипустякисемечки

Српскиigrarija

Svenskabarnlek

Türkçeçocuk işiçocuk oyuncağı

Examples

“Compared to my last⟳ job, this is child’s play⟳.”

“The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play⟳ to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see⟳!”

“In every county there were elderly gentlemen who had seen service which was no child's play⟳.”

“He'd pull⟳ his bars apart like⟳ bow and bow-string, / And let⟳ them go and make⟳ them twang until / His hands had worn them smooth as any ox-bow. / And then he'd crow as if he thought that child's play⟳— / The only fun he had.”

“I knew something of the railway engineer's uncanny genius for finding a path through such barriers if any path existed; yet I also knew the path would be no child's play⟳.”

“It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play⟳ with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play⟳ to these trains.”

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