a piece of cake
a piece of cake
something easily achieved – Informal
Related Idioms :
cakes and ale
merrymaking
1601 - William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night – Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
You can not have your cake and eat it
You can't enjoy both of two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives – proverb
the icing on the cake
an attractive but inessential addition or enhancement
A North American variant of this phrase is the frosting on the cake.
1996 - Independent - State education is no longer always free. The jumble sale and the summer fair, which used to provide the icing on the school cake, are now providing the staple fare.
sell like hot cakes = go like hot cakes
be sold quickly and in large quantities.
a slice of the cake
a share of the benefits or profits – informal
1991 - Robert Reiner - Chief Constables - Perhaps it's because they're such good spenders that our slice of the cake is sufficient for all we want.
take the cake
be the most remarkable – informal
1925 - P. G. Wodehouse - Letter - Of all the poisonous, foul, ghastly places, Cannes takes the biscuit with absurd ease.
In most of these idioms cake is used as a metaphor for something pleasant or desirable.
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