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child's play

UK/ˈt͡ʃaɪldz ˌpleɪ/

child's play noun: something particularly easy or simple.

Noun

child's play (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) 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!1839 (indicated as 1840), Thomas Carlyle, “Laissez-Faire”, in Chartism, London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, pages 52–53

child's play meaning in Hindi and Urdu

child's play in Hindi

something particularly easy or simple
बच्चों का खेल baccõ kā khel

child's play in Urdu

something particularly easy or simple
بازِیچَۂ اَطْفَال bāzīca-yi atfāl

Examples of child's play in a sentence

  • In every county there were elderly gentlemen who had seen service which was no child's play.1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown...
  • I knew something of the railway engineer's uncanny genius for finding a path through such barriers if any path existed; yet I also knew the path would be no child's play.1949 January–February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:
  • The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains.2025 November 12, 'Mystery Shopper', “Is Devon the cream of the crop?”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 48:

Synonyms of child's play

Origin of child's play

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

Questions about child's play

What does child's play mean?
Child's play means something particularly easy or simple.
What is child's play in Hindi?
Child's play in Hindi is बच्चों का खेल (baccõ kā khel). See Child's play meaning in Hindi.
How do you use child's play in a sentence?
In every county there were elderly gentlemen who had seen service which was no child's play.
What part of speech is child's play?
Child's play is a noun.
How do you pronounce child's play?
Child's play is pronounced /ˈt͡ʃaɪldz ˌpleɪ/ (UK).

Words near child's play in the dictionary

  1. child support
  2. CHILD syndrome
  3. child toucher
  4. child touchers
  5. child trafficking
  6. child's play
  7. child's pose
  8. child's poses
  9. child-abuser
  10. child-abusers
  11. child-bearing

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