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English
Etymology
Attested since 1936, originally in American English. Possibly from cakewalk, or the notion of facility that derives from many cakes having agreeable tastes, and hence being ‘easy’ to consume.
Pronunciation
Noun
piece of cake (plural pieces of cake)
- (idiomatic) A job, task or other activity that is pleasant – or, by extension, easy or simple.
- Synonyms: breeze, cakewalk, child's play, cinch, doddle, duck soup, walk in the park, walkover; see also Thesaurus:easy thing
Sure, no problem. It'll be a piece of cake.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piece, cake.
Related terms
Translations
simple or easy job
- Arabic: بَسِيطَة f (basīṭa), لُقْمَة سَائِغَة f (luqma(t) sāʔiḡa)
- Armenian: խաղ ու պար (hy) (xaġ u par)
- Catalan: bufar i fer ampolles (ca) (literally “blowing and bottlemaking”)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 非常容易的事 (fēicháng róngyì de shì), 小菜一碟 (zh) (xiǎocàiyīdié), 易如反掌 (zh) (yìrúfǎnzhǎng)
- Czech: hračka (cs) f, brnkačka (cs) f
- Danish: barnemad (da) c, barneleg c
- Dutch: eitje (nl) n, fluitje van een cent n, makkie (nl) n
- Estonian: käkitegu
- Finnish: helppo nakki (fi), lastenleikki (fi)
- French: jeu d’enfant (fr) (literally “child's play”)
- German: Kinderspiel (de) n (literally “child's play”), Pillepalle (de) f, Zuckerschlecken n, Spaziergang (de) m
- Hebrew: משחק ילדים (he) (miskhak yeladim, literally “child's play”)
- Hungarian: gyerekjáték (hu)
- Icelandic: ekkert mál (is), barnaleikur (is)
- Italian: gioco da ragazzi m (literally “child's play”), cosa da niente f (literally “thing of nothing”), come bere un bicchier d'acqua (literally “like drinking a glass of water”), gioco da bambini m (literally “child's play”)
- Japanese: 朝飯前 (ja) (あさめしまえ, asameshimae, literally “before breakfast”), お茶の子 (ja) (おちゃのこ, o-cha-no ko)
- Korean: 누워서 떡 먹기 (ko) (nuwoseo tteok meokgi, literally “eating rice cakes while lying down”), 껌 (ko) (kkeom)
- Malay: kacang (ms)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: barnemat (no) m
- Nynorsk: barnemat m
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: bułka z masłem (pl) (literally “butter bun”)
- Portuguese: moleza (pt) (Brazil), mamão com açúcar (literally “papaya with sugar”), mel na chupeta (pt) (literally “honey on the pacifier”)
- Romanian: floare la ureche (literally “flower at the ear”)
- Russian: про́ще пареной репы (ru) (próšče parenoj repy, literally “simpler than stew turnip”), раз плю́нуть (ru) (raz pljúnutʹ, literally “just to spit once”) (colloquial), как два пальца обоссать (ru) (kak dva palʹca obossatʹ, literally “like to piss onto two fingers”) (vulgar)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ма̏чјӣ ка̏шаљ
- Roman: mȁčjī kȁšalj (sh)
- Slovak: bufet m
- Spanish: coser y cantar (literally “sewing and singing”), bicoca (es) f (literally “bargain”), pan comido (es) (literally “bread eaten”), (Latin America) papita pal loro (literally “chips for the parrot”), papa (es) f (Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay)
- Swedish: barnlek (sv) c
- Turkish: çocuk oyuncağı (tr) (literally “child's toy”), çantada keklik (tr)
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
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