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no picnic
Idioms and Phrases
Difficult, no fun, as in Recovering from abdominal surgery is no picnic . This expression, alluding to a picnic as a pleasant occasion, was first recorded in 1888.Example Sentences
Invading south Lebanon, however well reasoned or cleverly planned, is no picnic.
And no picnic is complete without the quintessential summertime food: lobster rolls.
Much of Michelle Obama’s speech was managing expectations about how, even if Democrats feel euphoric now, the next couple of months will be no picnic.
Much of Michelle Obama’s speech was managing expectations about how, even if Democrats feel euphoric now, the next couple of months will be no picnic.
“The Warren court was no picnic for the justices. … They were unpopular basically from start to finish from ’53 to ’69,” Kavanaugh said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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