child's play

noun
/ˈt͡ʃaɪldz ˌpleɪ/US

Etymology

From child + -’s + play, originally referring literally to play by a child.

  1. inherited from plæġ
  2. inherited from pleye
  3. inherited from *plegōn
  4. inherited from *plehan
  5. inherited from plegian
  6. inherited from pleġan
  7. inherited from plaȝen
  8. inherited from pleyen
  9. compounded as child's play — “child + -'s + play

Definitions

  1. Something particularly easy or simple.

    • Compared to my last job, this is child’s play.
    • The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!
    • In every county there were elderly gentlemen who had seen service which was no child's play.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for child's play. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA