no easy/simple matter

noun

: something that is not easy to do
It's no easy/simple matter to find a decent place to live in this city.

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Their ascent through the 80s Los Angeles music scene—no easy matter in an industry that treated women like second-class citizens, or worse—and ultimate foundering are meticulously chronicled in Jennifer Otter Bickerdike’s Eternal Flame: The Authorized Biography of The Bangles. airmail.news, 15 Feb. 2025 Adding to the Academy’s challenges is the fact that postponing an event on the scale of the Grammys is no simple matter. Jem Aswad, Variety, 14 Jan. 2025 However, riding another person’s dragon is no simple matter, and Joffrey is thrown to his death. James Grebey, Vulture, 22 July 2024 With the rising sea having spilled over into thousands of pages of text, that is no easy matter. Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 19 July 2024 See All Example Sentences for no easy/simple matter

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“No easy/simple matter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20easy%2Fsimple%20matter. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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