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be a matter of something
idiom
C2
If something is a matter of confidence, luck, waiting, etc., you only need confidence, luck, waiting, etc. for it to happen:
Baking a cake isn't difficult - it's just a matter of following the recipe.
Success on the stock market is basically a matter of confidence.
Whether or not you were given one of the new homes was just a matter of luck.
The nursery is ready, so now it's just a matter of waiting for the child to be born.
People say we were brave to walk through the mountains, but it was a matter of self-preservation.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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(as) easy as pie/ABC/anything/falling off a logidiom
a piece of cakeidiom
accessibility
at the push of a buttonidiom
at the stroke of a penidiom
be child's playidiom
foolproof
frictionless
frictionlessly
friendly
gift
painlessly
painting
painting by numbersidiom
the path of least resistanceidiom
walkaway
walkover
wieldy
with your eyes closed/shutidiom
within the capacity of someone/something
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