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.

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Either way, finding a marquee replacement on such short notice to headline the world’s biggest and most profitable annual music festival is no easy matter. —George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2023

That is no easy matter, at a time when commodities are increasingly expensive, and when sourcing and supplying them is maddeningly complicated. —Vivienne Walt, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2022

Strong buildings come from strong ideas, and to distill the beliefs of 39 very different tribes into a unified credo is no easy matter. —Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022

Catching a fish the size of a small person with a willowy fly rod and a fly the size of your thumb is no easy matter. —Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022

Coming up with an American Gamelan is no easy matter, so the suite has been adapted into the more user-friendly Suite for Violin and String Orchestra. —Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2020

But knowing how to think and act as a citizen of this small world is no easy matter. —Matthew Mackenzie, The Conversation, 10 June 2020

But visualising our everyday thoughts is no easy matter, and dream-reading is more difficult still. —Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2012

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