no picnic

English

Phrase

(informal) Something difficult or unpleasant.
Synonym: no fun
- 1999, David Foster Wallace, “Suicide as a Sort of Present”, in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Little, Brown and Company:
  Her childhood had not been as bad as some, but it had been no picnic.

Further reading

“be no picnic”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“no picnic”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
“be no picnic”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
“be no picnic”, in Collins English Dictionary.

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