Question of the Day #960

Guest Wi-Fi access should always be ‘easy, peasy’

From the headline of this article at Network World Asia.

  上記の文で、easy peasyの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "easy peasy" mean?

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解答

意味：
問題文の"easy, peasy"という使い方はちょっと変わっています。一般的な用法はeasy-peasyです。英辞郎によるとその意味は、

〈英話〉〔作業などが〕とても［めっちゃ・超］簡単な、ちょろい◆【同】very easy◆子どもが（または大人が子どもぶって）使う表現

   

Answer

According to the Collins Dictionary:

very easy; presenting no difficulty at all

 

Examples

• Difficulty levels can be adjusted from easy-peasy to fiendishly difficult.
• After all, look how easy-peasy it is! - The Guardian (2016)
• But, it wasn't as easy-peasy as it might seem. - Times, Sunday Times (2014)
• It would be easy-peasy to talk about introducing lots of lovely clean electricity generated by wind or whatever we liked if we charged the consumer twice as much.
• Ella thinks it's going to easy-peasy... until they enter the empty lighthouse and discover something strange.

   

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