without tears (of a subject) presented so as to be learnt or achieved easily.
☞ The expression was first used in the titles of books by F. L. Mortimer, such as Reading without Tears (1857) and Latin without Tears (1877).
1991William FoxWilloughby's Phoney War [They] are going to be given their first lesson this afternoon. Skiing without tears, I hardly think.
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