# piece of cake

idiom · CEFR A2

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/piece-of-cake
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

A job, task or other activity that is pleasant or, by extension, easy or simple.

## 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.

## 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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