child's play

noun
1.
something very easily done.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English
British Dictionary definitions for child's play

child's play

noun
1.
(informal) something that is easy to do
Slang definitions & phrases for child's play

child's play

noun

Something easy to do: writing a novel isn't child's play (1380s+)


Idioms and Phrases with child's play

child's play

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.”