sleepwalk

a sleepwalk

Something that is done without much or any effort, thought, or skill; a cakewalk. I've been running marathons for years now, so this 5K run will be a sleepwalk for me. I knew I wouldn't have too much trouble in the entry-level computer class, but I wasn't expecting as much of a sleepwalk as that!
See also: sleepwalk
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sleepwalk

n. a movement toward something without effort; easy advancement; an easy task. (see also cakewalk, walk.) Getting the degree was a sleepwalk. Getting a job was hell.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • a sleepwalk
  • cakewalk
  • park
  • walk in the park
  • walk in the park, a
  • a walk in the park
  • lead-pipe cinch
  • be (one's) man/woman
  • be somebody's man/woman
  • (as) easy as duck soup
References in periodicals archive
RULE No 3: It's probably good sense, if you know you sleepwalk and you are away from home, to close the catches on the bedroom windows and lock the door - provided you remember where you put the key in case of fire.
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Young people's dreams of serving in the Armed Forces will be dashed if they sleepwalk, Defence Minister Tobias Ellwood has ruled.
Hopefuls sleepwalk out of a Forces job
HUDDERSFIELD owner and chairman Dean Hoyle has said he has no intention of letting the Premier League club "sleepwalk into relegation".
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About one in every 250 adults sleepwalks once a week.
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It was the second time Grigg has sleepwalked out of the family farm in Tregeare, Cornwall.
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Top brass are now rewriting policies to ban anyone who sleepwalks, or has severe nightmares, from the armed forces.
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Joey, who went on safari in South Africa and Uganda, said he'd not sleepwalked since he was a child.
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" Freeman said there washistory of sleepwalking in Queally's family - and the defendant had sleepwalked from the age of five.
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He told the coroner she had sleepwalked for "ten years plus".
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A COUNTY LOUTH racehorse trainer and businessman who took out a libel action against his former employers, after an incident in which he sleepwalked naked, was yesterday awarded EUR10 million in damages.
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He never sleepwalks normally," said mother Nicky, aged 35.
Angels saved my sleepwalking son
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Robbie just fell asleep!; Student goes for 40 winks then 40ft plunge..