summer holiday

plural summer holidays

1. CommonwealthIrelandcountableuncountableA vacation taken during the summer.
   1. CommonwealthIrelandcountableuncountableA school break in summer between school years and the break in the school academic year.

      Synonyms: summer holidays, summer vacation

2. countablefigurativelyuncountableAn easy and pleasant experience.

   Near-synonyms: walk in the park, piece of cake; see also Thesaurus:easy thing

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   This year's inventorying project was a summer holiday in comparison with how it used to go.

   Trips to Malta have not always been a summer holiday for Southgate's England - a World Cup qualifier here in 2017 saw them fail to score until the 53rd minute before three late strikes put some undeserved gloss on that 4-0 scoreline.

   2023 June 17, Emma Smith, “Malta 0-4 England”, in BBC Sport

   Synonyms: walk in the park, piece of cake, bagatelle, waltz, walk, breeze, cake and gingerbread, cakewalk

3. countableuncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see summer, holiday: a holiday (holy day or comparable) that falls during the summer; especially, one that celebrates summer or, most specifically, the summer solstice.

   Various religions have a summer holiday; scholars point out that even Christianity's Saint John's Eve partly reflects the Christianization of pre-Christian midsummer festivals.