Mickey Mouse Definition
adjective
Unimportant; trivial.
American Heritage
Intellectually unchallenging; simple.
His Mickey Mouse assignments soon bored the students.
American Heritage
noun
Oversimplified, shallow, insignificant, etc.
A Mickey Mouse college course.
Webster's New World
Origin of Mickey Mouse
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The adjective sense developed during the Second World War, after a large quantity of low quality counterfeit Mickey Mouse watches flooded the UK.
From Wiktionary
After the cartoon character Mickey Mouse , created by Walt Disney
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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