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etymology - Where is Ogden Nashs piece of cake? - English Language . . . Entering "cake" in the search box pulls up two results, both of which are unrelated to the idiom "a piece of cake" To give users an idea of Ogden's poetry, here is the only verse I found online that was published in The Primrose Path, it is about a pig
Why is the phrase cake walk informally used to describe an easy to . . . And that is aside from the fact that the nineteenth-century sources that I consulted don't use the term "piece of cake" in connection with "cake walk " In the early (1870–1880) instances of "cake walk" that I examined, the prize for the winning walkers was consistently identified as an entire cake—not a piece of one
nouns - Slice vs Piece: when to use which? - English Language . . . I'd like to understand when I should use "slice" or "piece", for example: "He's eaten three slices of pizza, and two pieces of cake" Why do I have to use "slice" with pizza, but "piece" with cake? In Brazilian Portuguese, my native language, we can use whichever we want to, especially colloquially
expressions - You can’t have your cake and eat it too - English . . . Recently, the reversed phrasing, "you can't have your cake and eat it too" has become more popular, and is generally used to rebuke someone who desires any two contradictory things For example, you might use the phrase when your Hummer-driving friend complains about how much money he spends on gasoline
Idiom, word, or expression meaning an easy-to-do task Piece of cake -- “A piece of cake literally refers to a slice of cake Idiomatically, the phrase refers to a job, task or other activity that is considered pleasant – or, by extension, easy or simple ” See examples in Google books Doddle -- “A job, task or other activity that is simple or easy to complete ” For a dozen brief examples, see page 34 of Materials Development in Language
When can uncountable nouns be countable? - English Language Usage . . . Here, cake means the ‘whole’ cake I need a piece of cake (at a coffee shop) → Here, a piece of cake means a part of the whole cake Usually, if we say, "I'd like some cakes" it means I would like some pieces of cake, not the whole ones In fact, my grammar book, Grammar In Use by Raymond Murphy, explains this
Phrase that means too easy with a negative connotation Common phrases for too easy are "piece of cake" and "walk in the park" which I have only seen in positive or at least neutral contexts "Rowing with the current" somewhat fits in with the idea but it's not exactly a dictionary-listed phrase, and not always used negatively either