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单词 child's play
释义

child's play

English

Etymology

Patterned after German Kinderspiel, French jeu d'enfant, Italian gioco da bambini, Italian gioco da ragazzi.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

child's play (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) Something particularly simple or easy.
    Compared to my last job, this is child's play.
    • 2015 August 18, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken and Other Poems: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Penguin, →ISBN, OCLC 1155952570, page 51:
      And then he'd crow as if he thought that child's play The only fun he had. I've heard them say, though, They found a way to put a stop to it. He was before my time—I never saw him; But the pen stayed exactly as it was There in the upper chamber in the ell, A sort of catch-all full of attic clutter. []
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: the play of a child.

Synonyms

  • kid stuff

Translations

See also

  • easy as pie
  • piece of cake
  • easy peasy
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