make (something) seem like a picnic
make (something) seem like a picnic
To be so difficult, complicated, or harmful as to make something else that is normally very difficult or negative seem easy, simple, or pleasant by comparison. If we don't act now, the financial crisis waiting for us will make the last recession seem like a picnic.
See also: like, make, picnic, seem
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- pull teeth
- like pulling teeth
- hard/tough sledding
- difficult times
- a turn of the screw
- be like looking for a needle in a haystack
- be like trying to find a needle in a haystack
- Doctors make the worst patients.
- get (something) over with
- get it over with