piece of cake

Slang Dictionary

cake definition


  1. n.
    money. (From bread, dough.) : I can't scrape together enough cake to do the job.

  2. Go to cakes. :
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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piece of cake definition


  1. n.
    something easy to do. : No problem. When you know what you're doing, it's a piece of cake.
  2. exclam.
    It's a piece of cake!; It's easy! (Usually Piece of cake!) : Rescuing drowning cats is my specialty. Piece of cake!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

piece of cake

Something easily accomplished, as in I had no trouble finding your housea piece of cake. This expression originated in the Royal Air Force in the late 1930s for an easy mission, and the precise reference is as mysterious as that of the simile easy as pie. Possibly it evokes the easy accomplishment of swallowing a slice of sweet dessert.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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