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rocket science

Rocket science is when the scientists find out things about space.
Judge Judy: "It's not rocket science. What is rocket science?"

Defendant: "Rocket science is when the scientists find out things about space."

Australian rocket science

Manual labor, especially any kind of digging. So called because Australians are also known as "diggers" and the implication that they are not very smart.
If you do not finish high school, you will end up doing Australian rocket science for a living.

rocket science

A misnomer for an aerospace engineering.
Brain surgery huh? It's not exactly rocket science is it?
rocket science by praxis August 22, 2012

couldn't be rocket science 

Condi: Well, how hard could it be fly a jet?

LewisScooter: It couldn't be rocket science.

Condi: I could kiss you right now.

LewisScooter: (Crestfallen) But you won't.

Rocket Science

A phrase used by people too stupid to know that rocketry is an engineering discipline and not a science at all.
Manager: "Can't you do anything right? It's not rocket science!"

Worker: "Actually, rocketry is an engineering discipline."

Manager: "You're fired."
Rocket Science by Chelonian November 30, 2010

it's not rocket science 

capable of being accomplished with ease; posing no difficulty
"I can make a pipe out of an apple!"

"So what? That's not rocket science. I grow hydroponic in the trunk of my Chrysler LeBaron."