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单词 child's play
释义

child's play

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noun

something very easily done.

Origin of child's play

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Words nearby child's play

Children's Crusade, Children's Day, Children's Panel, child-resistant, child restraint, child's play, child support, child welfare, child wife, chile, Chilean
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British Dictionary definitions for child's play

child's play

noun

informal something that is easy to do
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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.”

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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