Definition of "no mean feat" [no mean feat]

• A laudable triumph of great difficulty. (noun)

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• "Muffled in his hooded cloak, Sulla entered Rome just as the eastern sky was pearling; in nine hours of seventy-four minutes each he had ridden from Circei to Rome, no mean feat for a tired mule and a man who had only really learned to ride on the journey."