no picnic

English

Phrase

no picnic

1. (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.