summer holiday

Noun

summer holiday (countable and uncountable, plural summer holidays)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland) A vacation taken during the summer.
   1. (Commonwealth, Ireland) A school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year.
2. (figuratively) An easy and pleasant experience.
   • Near-synonyms: walk in the park, piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing
   • This year's inventorying project was a summer holiday in comparison with how it used to go.

   Synonyms:

   walk in the park, piece of cake, bagatelle, waltz, breeze, cake and gingerbread, cakewalk, child's play, cinch, doddle

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see summer, holiday: a holiday (holy day or comparable) that falls during the summer; especially, one that celebrates summer or, most specifically, the summer solstice.
   • Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals.