Bala offered to fix the fuse, thinking it would be a piece of cake for him; and it was.
The test was a piece of cake for Sheetal as she was tested on the portion she had already studied in her previous school.
When you know what you are doing and you are good at it, it’s a piece of cake .
But what is so easy about a piece of cake? Baking the cake surely involves a lot of work. Sieving the flour, beating in the eggs, mixing stuff in a bowl, putting it into an oven.
Guess what’s easy then?
Well, it’s eating the piece of cake, that’s easy! Isn’t that so?
Thus the phrase a piece of cake possibly got its meaning, easy to accomplish, from the simple way in which you can eat a piece of cake . Other phrases which fall in the same line are as easy as a pie or a cake-walk.
Correction: In the article “Under the Grizzly Sky” that appeared in the Language Lab column dated March 13, the word ‘grisly’ was spelt ‘gristly’. The error is regretted.
