child's play | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Somethingparticularlyeasyorsimple.Synonyms:kid stuff,piece of cakeCompared to my last job, this ischild’s play.1839(indicated as1840),Thomas Carlyle, “Laissez-Faire”, inChartism, London:James Fraser,[…],→OCLC,pages52–53:The brawny craftsman finds it nochild's playto mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!1849,Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, inThe History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London:Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans,→OCLC,page322:In every county there were elderly gentlemen who had seen service which was nochild's play.1914, Robert Frost, “A Servant to Servants”, inNorth of Boston, London:David Nutt[…],→OCLC,page74:He'd pull his bars apart like bow and bow-string, / And let them go and make them twang until / His hands had worn them smooth as any ox-bow. / And then he'd crow as if he thought thatchild's play— / The only fun he had.1949January–February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, inThe Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press,→ISSN,→OCLC, page11: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 nochild's play.

Examples:

EN: No child's play, you know.
ES: No será un juego de niños.
EN: The rest was child's play.
ES: El resto fue un juego de niños.
EN: Raising $500 is no child's play.
ES: Conseguir 500 dólares no es nada fácil.
EN: Why, to figure out a nifty little double-cross... is just child's play for him.
ES: Manipular una pequeña y linda traición es un juego para él.
EN: It's child's play.
ES: Es un juego de niños.
EN: Katusha, army maneuvers aren't child's play.
ES: Katusha, las maniobras no son un juego de niños.
EN: Why, it's child's play.
ES: Para nada, si es juego de niños.
EN: Building that tower is child's play compared with getting into myself.
ES: ¡Es imposible pasar una velada a solas contigo!
EN: This is child's play, we are right on the course.
ES: Un juego de niños. Dale fuerte al pasar sobre el cabo.
EN: It's going to make what's gone before seem like child's play.
ES: Todo Io anterior ha sido un juego de niños.
EN: I suppose this sort of work is a child's play for you, General?
ES: Supongo, que todavía no estará usted cansado, General.
EN: My dear fellow, it's child's play.
ES: ¡Perderás,amigo mío!
EN: Arresting Pépé in a place like the Casbah isn't child's play.
ES: - Arrestar a Pepe en un lugar como la Casbah no es juego de niños
EN: Ah, but wait. Suppose Pepe comes out of the Casbah. Then it follows, his arrest is a matter of child's play.
ES: Si Pepe bajara de la Casbah, arrestarlo sería un juego de niños.
EN: I realize now that all the cases I've sent you in the past have been child's play.
ES: Ahora me doy cuenta de que todos los casos que le enviaba eran un juego de niños.

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