Choose the idiom/idioms that mean:
An easy task
A. Great hand
B. Hobson's choice
C. Child's play
D. A piece of cake
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → C and D only
A. Great hand — Incorrect.
- To be a great hand (at something) means to be very skilled at it.
- It describes a person, not an easy task.
Example: My grandmother is a great hand at making pickles.
B. Hobson's choice — Incorrect.
- A Hobson's choice is a "choice" in which only one option is really available: take what is offered or nothing.
- It comes from Thomas Hobson, a seventeenth-century stable owner in Cambridge, who made every customer take the horse nearest the door or none at all.
Example: With only one bus a day, travelling at dawn was a Hobson's choice.
C. Child's play — Correct.
- Child's play means something very easy to do, as simple as a game for a child.
Example: For an expert mechanic, changing a tyre is child's play.
D. A piece of cake — Correct.
- A piece of cake means a very easy task.
Example: After all that practice, the final exam was a piece of cake.
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