doddle

Definitions

1. A hornless animal; a pollard or doddy.
2. A job, task, or other activity that is easy to complete or simple.
   Australia, Ireland, UK, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“Centurion: Have⟳ you ever seen anyone crucified? / Matthias: Crucifixion's a doddle.”

“Retailing in Europe's biggest economy, with 82m mostly well-off people, may sound⟳ a doddle. It is not.”

“He was a QC from Edinburgh, wearing the black jacket and pinstripe trousers of his trade⟳, as if straight from court, and probably persuaded to come⟳ in the belief that if you could interest⟳ the Budhill and Springboig party in the repressive Gaullist policies in Algeria then becoming Solicitor-General was a dawdle.”

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