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.
The following words have also been asked in other CUET (UG) English papers:
| Word | 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hobson's choice | 18-05 S1 18-05 S2 | – | – | 10-06 S3 | – |