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