PIECE OF CAKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does piece of cake mean? 

• PIECE OF CAKE (noun)
  The noun PIECE OF CAKE has 1 sense:

1. any undertaking that is easy to do

  Familiarity information: PIECE OF CAKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIECE OF CAKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any undertaking that is easy to do

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breeze; child's play; cinch; duck soup; picnic; piece of cake; pushover; snap; walkover

Context example:

marketing this product will be no picnic

Hypernyms ("piece of cake" is a kind of...):

labor; project; task; undertaking (any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "piece of cake"):

doddle (an easy task)

 Context examples 

The little old grey man met him likewise, and asked him for a piece of cake and a drink of wine.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Finding a suitable place you like will be a piece of cake in the days surrounding the full moon, March 9, plus or minus four days.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Mrs. and Miss Bates occupied the drawing-room floor; and there, in the very moderate-sized apartment, which was every thing to them, the visitors were most cordially and even gratefully welcomed; the quiet neat old lady, who with her knitting was seated in the warmest corner, wanting even to give up her place to Miss Woodhouse, and her more active, talking daughter, almost ready to overpower them with care and kindness, thanks for their visit, solicitude for their shoes, anxious inquiries after Mr. Woodhouse's health, cheerful communications about her mother's, and sweet-cake from the beaufet—“Mrs. Cole had just been there, just called in for ten minutes, and had been so good as to sit an hour with them, and she had taken a piece of cake and been so kind as to say she liked it very much; and, therefore, she hoped Miss Woodhouse and Miss Smith would do them the favour to eat a piece too.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

One day her mother said to her: Come, Little Red-Cap, here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine; take them to your grandmother, she is ill and weak, and they will do her good.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

When he entered the forest he met a little grey-haired old man who bade him good day, and said: Do give me a piece of cake out of your pocket, and let me have a draught of your wine; I am so hungry and thirsty.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)