Idiom
piece of cake
Meaning
A job, task or other activity that is pleasant or, by extension, easy or simple.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The test was a piece of cake.”
“Don't worry about the interview — with your experience, it'll be a piece of cake.”
“What had seemed an insurmountable challenge to his predecessors turned out, for him, to be a piece of cake.”
Examples
simple
“The test was a piece of cake.”
contextual
“Don't worry about the interview — with your experience, it'll be a piece of cake.”
complex
“What had seemed an insurmountable challenge to his predecessors turned out, for him, to be a piece of cake.”
Origin
1930s; first recorded in Ogden Nash's Primrose Path (1936); possibly related to 19th-century 'cakewalk' contests in which cakes were awarded as prizes.
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- Level
- A2 · Elementary
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