CHILD'S PLAY Definition & Meaning

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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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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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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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But what she has endured since giving her all in the floor exercise at the Paris Olympics makes the most difficult routine seem like child’s play.

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It’ll be child’s play, she says.

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It would be child's play to show that in, let's say, Washington, DC, if you take 50 people who are doing really well, they share some characteristic, and then to infer that that characteristic is the reason for their success.

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