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Idiom

cake and gingerbread

Meaning

An easy or pleasant task or experience; a piece of cake.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“This easy math test is just cake and gingerbread.”

“After working on the difficult project for weeks, the final presentation felt like cake and gingerbread.”

“The manager promised that the transition to the new software would be cake and gingerbread, yet the staff found the process quite challenging.”

Examples

simple

“This easy math test is just cake and gingerbread.”

contextual

“After working on the difficult project for weeks, the final presentation felt like cake and gingerbread.”

complex

“The manager promised that the transition to the new software would be cake and gingerbread, yet the staff found the process quite challenging.”

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