child's play

Definition

Something particularly easy or simple.

Etymology

From child + -’s + play, originally referring literally to play by a child.

Example Sentences

• "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."

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