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no picnic

no picnic phrase: something difficult or unpleasant.

Phrase

no picnic

  1. (informal) Something difficult or unpleasant.
    • Her childhood had not been as bad as some, but it had been no picnic.1999, David Foster Wallace, “Suicide as a Sort of Present”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Little, Brown and Company
    Synonyms:
    no fun

Synonyms of no picnic

Questions about no picnic

What does no picnic mean?
No picnic means something difficult or unpleasant.
What part of speech is no picnic?
No picnic is a phrase.

Words near no picnic in the dictionary

  1. no pain, no gain
  2. no parking
  3. no parking whitebeam
  4. no parking whitebeams
  5. no peace for the weary
  6. no picnic
  7. no place
  8. no plan survives contact with the enemy
  9. no plan survives first contact with the enemy
  10. no poo
  11. no pressure

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