child's play

Example Sentences

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A 69-hour workweek would have been child’s play for workers in the decades of the last 20th century when they were transforming the country into an unlikely global economic powerhouse.

From Washington Times

I couldn’t imagine him as an academic but he’s quite good, and playing men wounded by their male relatives is — for the guy who made Jimmy McGill into Saul — child’s play.

From Washington Post

“If it becomes child’s play to make new molecules, the bottleneck becomes imagination.”

From Science Magazine

Its failings, however, have nothing to do with Korean actress Bae Doona’s central performance as the awakened doll, Nozomi, which is an enchanting portrait of guilelessness and curiosity that exists in some unplaceable realm made of child’s play, otherworldly sentience and refined clowning.

From Los Angeles Times

That seems like child’s play, compared to what else is going on in the skies.

From New York Times