Idiom
cake crumbs
Meaning
Hardly anything.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My bonus was just cake crumbs.”
“After working all weekend, the manager offered us cake crumbs instead of a real raise.”
“The workers realized the company's generous offer was merely cake crumbs compared to the massive profits they generated.”
Examples
simple
“My bonus was just cake crumbs.”
contextual
“After working all weekend, the manager offered us cake crumbs instead of a real raise.”
complex
“The workers realized the company's generous offer was merely cake crumbs compared to the massive profits they generated.”
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