walk in the park
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- idiom
- Informal
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pan comido
- Completing this project should be a walk in the park given how well you've prepared.
- Just a walk in the park
- exactly a walk in the park
Then escape requires nullity rather than a walk in the park or a movie.
- Then escape requires nullity rather than a walk in the park or a movie.
- Listen, if you can do death row, then this is a walk in the park.
- And yeah, everyone was a bit like this ain't going to be a walk in the park.
- Just lately, the shopping, a walk in the park.
Examples
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In essence, qTranslate condenses the work involved in reaching foreign-language users down to an absolute walk in the park.
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It's just a walk in the park.
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40 hours a week is a walk in the park, so just be happy.
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To say the least, putting the other side of the argument into words was no walk in the park.
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Life for "free" immigrants in the north was no walk in the park.
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You know, designing's no walk in the park.
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It's no secret that the market currently is very competitive, and it won't be a walk in the park.
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We knew, coming into this game with KC, that it wasn't gonna be a walk in the park.
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This task will be a walk in the park for someone with your experience.
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For the children, the school play was a walk in the park since they had practiced for weeks.
Synonyms
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An easy thing to do
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A task that is very easy to do
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An activity that is very easy to do
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An easy task that you can do without much effort
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An easy task that needs little effort
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1.3
A very easy task that needs little effort
A competition or test that is very easy to pass
Antonyms
How Easy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'very easy' is partially derivable because a literal 'walk in the park' evokes a leisurely, low-effort activity, so learners who know the words can often infer a meaning related to ease. However, the phrase is used figuratively to describe tasks rather than an actual stroll, so the specific idiomatic extension is not fully predictable without exposure; this partial predictability (and some cross-linguistic variation) makes it semi-transparent.
Etymology
The idiom walk in the park comes from the simple image of taking a calm walk in a pleasant park, where there are no big problems or hard work. Because a peaceful walk in a park feels easy and pleasant, people use the phrase to mean 'something very easy'.