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A task so easy it insults actual parks, which have hills.
means Something easy and effortless, requiring little struggle to accomplish.
from Rooted simply in the real experience of walking through a park — flat paths, pleasant surroundings, no obstacles — as opposed to, say, scaling a mountain. The phrase shows up in English by the mid-20th century as an idiom for something pleasant and undemanding; it's a plain metaphor more than a mystery, though no one can pin down the first person to say it.
- origin era
- American slang, coined around the 1830s
- irony
- real park walks involve bees, hills, strangers
- usage tell
- always said after the hard part
- antonym
- walk in the park, Jurassic edition