rocket surgery
Fictitious difficult skill
A humorous blend of "rocket science" and "brain surgery"—two fields requiring exceptional intelligence—used sarcastically to describe something that isn't particularly difficult: Come on, it's not rocket surgery.
The malapropism is intentional, adding absurdist humor to the dismissal.
Sometimes used straight as an intensified version of either phrase alone.
- space programOrganized effort for extraterrestrial exploration
- mixed metaphorIncongruent figures jumbled together
- malapropismSound-alike word confusion
- punWordplay using double meanings
- catchphraseSignature line of words
absurdity · nerd humor · eggcorn · colloquialism · sarcasm · irony · neologism · portmanteau · figure of speech · turn of phrase · common saying · engineering · slang · hyperbole · meme · tech bro · jargon · spoonerism
- Mangled Idiomsfor all intensive purposes
rocket surgerychild's play
Something extremely easy
piece of cake · no-brainer · walk in the park · cakewalk · easy as pie
rocket surgeryrocket science
Spacecraft propulsion engineering
brain surgery · neurosurgery · aerospace engineering · quantum physics · nuclear physics
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