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child's play
noun
- something very easily done.
child's play
noun
- informal.something that is easy to do
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˜yÐÄvlog 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.â€Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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