childsplay
English
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editchildsplay (uncountable)
- (chiefly dated) Alternative form of child's play
- 1926, Seymour Hicks, “Green Gets Off At Adelaide” (chapter XIV), in Hullo Australians[1], page 156:
- […] for the obstacles Nature placed in his path were childsplay compared with the difficulties a Home Government without vision surrounded him with.
- 1906, Wilhelm Aylau, Carrie Aylau, The Profession of Teaching Music[2], page 95:
- And the education of the eye is childsplay in comparison with that of the keyboard-sense and the ear, […]
- 1915, “Loan Burglars on the Curb Separate and Collect”, in Goodwin's Weekly[3], volume 25, number 11, page 4:
- One of the enthusiastic pilgrims who returned from the property this week said it is childsplay to break the hundred tons now being forwarded daily to the smelters.