picnic

pícnic, merienda campestre

Encuentro informal al aire libre donde la gente lleva comida y come junta.

En inglés sencillo: A relaxed outdoor gathering where people bring food and eat together.

• Let's have a picnic in the park.
• They organized a family picnic by the lake.
• Will you join us for the school picnic on Saturday?

Expresiones frecuentes: have a picnic, go on a picnic, family picnic, picnic in something

comida de pícnic, pícnic

Comida que se lleva a un lugar al aire libre para comerla allí, normalmente en un parque o en el campo.

En inglés sencillo: A meal you bring with you and eat outside, often in a park or the countryside.

• We ate our picnic under a tree.
• She packed a picnic of bread, cheese, and fruit.
• Our picnic was ruined when ants got into the sandwiches.

Sinónimos: outdoor meal, packed lunch

Expresiones frecuentes: pack a picnic, picnic lunch, picnic basket, eat a picnic

pan comido, tarea fácil

Algo fácil o agradable de hacer; suele usarse en negativo para indicar que una tarea es difícil.

En inglés sencillo: Something easy or pleasant to do, usually mentioned when saying a task is difficult.

• This job is no picnic.
• Looking after six puppies was hardly a picnic.
• Compared with the last exam, this one was a picnic.

Cómo se usa: be no picnic (Moving house with three children is no picnic.)

Sinónimos: breeze, piece of cake, easy task

Antónimos: ordeal

Expresiones frecuentes: no picnic, be a picnic, hardly a picnic

hacer un pícnic

Llevar comida a un lugar al aire libre y comer allí por diversión.

En inglés sencillo: To bring food somewhere outdoors and eat it there, usually for pleasure.

• We often picnic in the park.
• They picnicked beside the river yesterday.
• Families were picnicking on the grass near the beach.

Sinónimos: eat outdoors, have a picnic

Expresiones frecuentes: picnic by something, picnic in something, picnic on something