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.

Examples of no easy/simple matter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Second, because the deployment of chiles in Thai cooking is no simple matter of hot or not. — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026

Fleeing, not quite leaping and clumsily sort of galloping, is no easy matter for a snail (the starfish has thousands of ciliate foot like suction cups), and fighting is pure folly versus so many arms. — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026

As well as capital, the project relies on securing long-term power supplies — no simple matter at a time of surging demand from AI data centers. — Dominic Dudley, semafor.com, 17 Dec. 2025

For dissidents to assume the mantle of the pre-revolutionary intelligentsia was therefore no simple matter. — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025