English Idiom – A piece of cake.
Very easy. A task that is simple to do.
This is one of the most popular idioms in English! We usually say something is or was a piece of cake: “The exam was a piece of cake.”
Other Ways to Say Something Is Easy:
- A breeze
- A cakewalk
- A doddle (British English)
- A walk in the park
- As easy as pie
- Child’s play
- A cinch
- A pushover – very easy to defeat or persuade.
Careful: no picnic means the opposite – something is difficult: “Looking after twins is no picnic!”
Usage:
- Your English test was very easy.
- A project turned out to be easier than you thought.
- A football team won 8–0.
Example:
- “I thought my humongous science assignment would take all week, but I finished it in an hour. It was a piece of cake!”
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An idiom is a word or phrase that is not taken literally. An idiom is an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual words, but has a separate meaning of its own.
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Very easy.
Something difficult – for example, “It was no picnic” or “It was a nightmare”.
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