cake and gingerbread
An easy or pleasant task or experience; a piece of cake.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“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.”
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cake crumbs
Hardly anything.
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cake walk
Something extremely easy.
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cakes and ale
The simple material pleasures of life.
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eat one's cake and have it too
Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.
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gingerbread up
Synonym of gingerbread (“to decorate or embellish in an ornate or intricate way”).
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give and take
[Cockney slang]cake
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have one's cake and eat it too
To benefit by having two things which are mutually incompatible (such as eating a piece of cake and yet still possessing that piece for future use).
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icing on the cake
A thing which intensifies the appreciation of something already good, or (ironic) the regretting of something already bad.
Last updated August 10, 2026