Idiom idiom
cake walk
Meaning
Something extremely easy.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Anchors to
- 01
ball and Chalk
[Cockney slang]walk
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cake and gingerbread
An easy or pleasant task or experience; a piece of cake.
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cake crumbs
Hardly anything.
- 04
cakes and ale
The simple material pleasures of life.
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cock of the walk
A proud or conceited person.
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crawl before one walks
To learn the basics before doing something at a more advanced level.
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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
Last updated August 10, 2026