no picnic
English
Phrase
no picnic
- (informal) Something difficult or unpleasant.
- Synonym: no fun
- 1999, David Foster Wallace, “Suicide as a Sort of Present”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Little, Brown and Company:
- Her childhood had not been as bad as some, but it had been no picnic.
Further reading
- “no picnic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “be no picnic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “no picnic”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “be no picnic” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “be no picnic”, in Collins English Dictionary.