Rocket Surgery
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A joking mixed phrase combining 'rocket science' and 'brain surgery' to mock claims that something is impossibly hard. In engineering slang, it is often used to cut through theatrical complexity framing.
In plain English: A humorous mixed metaphor used to say something is not as impossibly hard as people claim.
Example: "Writing a safer config validator was not rocket surgery, and the lead used that phrase pointedly to push back on excuses for not doing the obvious maintenance work."