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child's play

noun

  1. something very easily done.



child's play

noun

  1. informalsomething that is easy to do

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of child's play1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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Idioms and Phrases

Something easily done, a trivial matter. For example, Finding the answer was child's play for Robert, or The fight we had was child's play compared to the one I had with my mother! Originating in the early 1300s as child's game, the idiom was already used in its present form by Chaucer in The Merchant's Tale: “It is no child's play to take a wife.”
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Example Sentences

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"This is not child's play, and we can pray for good health, but also recognise that if you're not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn't be doing the job," he added.

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"This is not child's play, and we can pray for good health, but also recognize that if you're not in good enough health to do the job, you shouldn't be doing the job," he added.

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My niece is part of Generation Alpha — born between 2013 and the mid-2020s — and while they're still kids, their exposure to digital marketing is anything but child's play.

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This week’s Slate News Quiz is child’s play.

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The nickname was hung on him by players in Pachuca’s youth system who thought that Lozano, then 11, resembled the evil red-headed Chucky doll from the “Child’s Play” series of horror films.

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