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cake crumbs

idiom

Hardly anything.


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  1. 01

    cake and gingerbread

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

  2. 02

    cake walk

    Something extremely easy.

  3. 03

    eat and leave no crumbs

    Synonym of eat (“to be very good at something; to rule; to rock”).

  4. 04

    eat one's cake and have it too

    Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.

  5. 05

    Give and take

    [Cockney slang]cake

  6. 06

    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).

  7. 07

    icing on the cake

    A thing which intensifies the appreciation of something already good, or (ironic) the regretting of something already bad.

  8. 08

    leave no crumbs

    Ellipsis of eat and leave no crumbs.

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