child's play

Example Sentences

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His Grindelwald is about what you’d expect from this child’s-play franchise, sour, diverting and sinister if never particularly scary.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2018

However, in the light of my habitual dealings with army corps, it would, no doubt, be child's-play after a little thought.

From The Defence of Duffer's Drift by Swinton, Ernest Dunlop

To reach the ground was mere child's-play, as he had promised.

From True Tilda by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

When he taps for only one or two the thing is child’s-play, but when he has to represent a whole troop, it is then that he earns his money in the sweat of his brow.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

If Magdala at all approaches Waldo’s fortress in strength, an assault in the face of some thousands of determined men, commanded by a desperate chief like Theodore, will be no child’s-play even for British troops.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)