My bonus was just cake crumbs.
cake crumbs
idiomHardly anything.
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.
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cake and gingerbread
An easy or pleasant task or experience; a piece of cake.
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cake walk
Something extremely easy.
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eat and leave no crumbs
Synonym of eat (“to be very good at something; to rule; to rock”).
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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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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.
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leave no crumbs
Ellipsis of eat and leave no crumbs.