picnic

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English - Vietnamese dictionary

picnic /'piknik/

• danh từ
  • cuộc đi chơi và ăn ngoài trời
  • (thông tục) việc thú vị, việc dễ làm, việc ngon xơi
    • it is no picnic: không phải là chuyện ngon xơi

• nội động từ
  • đi chơi và ăn ngoài trời

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Advanced English dictionary

noun, verb
+ noun
1 an occasion when people pack a meal and take it to eat outdoors, especially in the countryside: It's a nice day. Let's go for a picnic.
2 the meal, usually consisting of sandwiches, salad and fruit, etc. that you take with you when you go on a picnic: Let's eat our picnic by the lake. + a picnic lunch / supper / basket
Idioms: be no picnic (informal) to be difficult and cause a lot of problems: Bringing up a family when you're unemployed is no picnic.
+ verb (-ck-) [V] to have a picnic: No picnicking allowed (= on a sign)

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Thesaurus dictionary

n.

1 garden party, fête champêtre, meal alfresco, barbecue, US clam-bake, US and Canadian cookout:

The clouds had gone, and it was a great day for a picnic.

2 child's play, Colloq pushover, snap, cinch, piece of cake, walk-over, US and Canadian breeze, lead-pipe cinch:

Sailing home with a quartering wind - it was a picnic all the way

3 no picnic. difficult, arduous, torture, torturous, agony, agonizing, painful, disagreeable, discomfiting, misfortune, Colloq tough, tough luck, tough going, rough, a pain in the neck, US tough sledding, Taboo Slang pain in the Brit arse or US ass:

Being marooned on a desert island for a month was no picnic, I assure you.

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Collocation

VERB + PICNIC

PICNIC + NOUN

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Concise dictionary

picnicked|picnicking|picnics'pɪknɪk
noun
+a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
+any undertaking that is easy to do
+any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion
verb
+eat alfresco, in the open air

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