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noun
something very easily done.
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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
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Other 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.”
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