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child's play

noun

  1. something very easily done.


child's play

noun

  1. 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€

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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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