Meanings
plural pieces of cake
- idiomaticA job, task or other activity that is pleasant or, by extension, easy or simple.
Sure, no problem. It'll be a piece of cake.
2 more examples
Dennis's enthusiasm was difficult for Ryan to manage, but Javier's angsty Victorian-era man-pain is a piece of cake.
2014, Dominique Frost, In the Blaze of His Hungers, →ISBNI just bought a ramune soda myself! 😂︎ I opened it without spilling a drop! Piece of cake
2022, Hitomi Takano, translated by Kumar Sivasubramanian, “Final Chapter To Be Continued”, in My Boy, volume 9, New York, N.Y.: Vertical Comics, →ISBN, page 156Synonyms: breeze, cakewalk, child's play, cinch, doddle, duck soup, walk in the park, walkover
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA job, task or other activity that is pleasant or, by extension, easy or simple.
More synonyms by meaning
nounany undertaking that is easy to do
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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. Compare French être du gâteau (literally “to be a cake”), être de la tarte (literally “to be a pie”), both meaning "to be easy, to be a piece of cake".
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic بَسِيطَة, لُقْمَة سَائِغَة
- بَسِيطَة (basīṭa)simple or easy job
- لُقْمَة سَائِغَةsimple or easy job
Catalan bufar i fer ampolles
- bufar i fer ampollessimple or easy job
Chinese Mandarin 非常容易的事, 小菜一碟
- 非常容易的事 (fēicháng róngyì de shì)simple or easy job
- 小菜一碟 (xiǎocàiyīdié)simple or easy job
- 易如反掌 (yìrúfǎnzhǎng)simple or easy job
- 小事一樁 /小事一桩 (xiǎoshì-yīzhuāng)simple or easy job
Czech hračka, brnkačka
- hračkasimple or easy job
- brnkačkasimple or easy job
Danish barnemad, barneleg
- barnemadsimple or easy job
- barnelegsimple or easy job
Dutch eitje, fluitje van een cent
- eitjesimple or easy job
- fluitje van een centsimple or easy job
- makkiesimple or easy job
Estonian käkitegu
- käkitegusimple or easy job
Finnish helppo nakki, lastenleikki
- helppo nakkisimple or easy job
- lastenleikkisimple or easy job
French jeu d'enfant, nougat
- jeu d'enfantsimple or easy job
- nougatsimple or easy job
German Kinderspiel, Pillepalle
- Kinderspielsimple or easy job
- Pillepallesimple or easy job
- Zuckerschleckensimple or easy job
- Spaziergangsimple or easy job
Hungarian gyerekjáték
- gyerekjátéksimple or easy job
Icelandic ekkert mál, barnaleikur
- ekkert málsimple or easy job
- barnaleikursimple or easy job
Italian gioco da ragazzi, cosa da niente
- gioco da ragazzisimple or easy job
- cosa da nientesimple or easy job
- come bere un bicchier d'acquasimple or easy job
- gioco da bambinisimple or easy job
Japanese お茶の子
- お茶の子 (o-cha-no ko)simple or easy job
Korean 껌
- 껌 (kkeom)simple or easy job
Malay kacang
- kacangsimple or easy job
Norwegian Bokmål barnemat
- barnematsimple or easy job
Polish bułka z masłem
- bułka z masłemsimple or easy job
Portuguese moleza, mamão com açúcar
- molezasimple or easy job
- mamão com açúcarsimple or easy job
- mel na chupetasimple or easy job
- canjasimple or easy job
Romanian floare la ureche
- floare la urechesimple or easy job
Slovak bufet
- bufetsimple or easy job
Spanish coser y cantar, bicoca
- coser y cantarsimple or easy job
- bicocasimple or easy job
- pan comidosimple or easy job
- papita para el lorosimple or easy job
- papasimple or easy job
- huevosimple or easy job
- papayasimple or easy job
- güirasimple or easy job
- papayitasimple or easy job
Swedish baggis, barnlek
- baggissimple or easy job
- barnleksimple or easy job
Turkish çocuk oyuncağı, çantada keklik
- çocuk oyuncağısimple or easy job
- çantada kekliksimple or easy job
Cite this entry
piece of cake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piece%20of%20cake
“piece of cake.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piece%20of%20cake. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “piece of cake,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piece%20of%20cake.
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