Meaning of doddle | Babel Free

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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