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British slang for something so easy it barely counts as trying.
means Something ridiculously easy to do, requiring almost no effort or skill.
from British slang whose roots are genuinely murky — one popular guess ties it to 'doddle,' a dialect word for a small amount or dawdling motion, and another suggests a link to 'dawdle' or 'toddle,' as if the task is so easy you could stroll through it. It surfaces in print only in the 20th century, and etymologists admit they're not fully sure where it wandered in from.
- origin
- possibly linked to idle doodling, unclear roots
- usage
- mostly UK, often paired with piece of cake
- register
- informal, almost always spoken not written