cake walk
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1.3
- noun
- /keɪk wɔk/
- Informal
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pan comido
- I I'm, I'm confident that whatever you do next, it will be a cake walk compared to this hell hole.
I I'm, I'm confident that whatever you do next, it will be a cake walk compared to this hell hole.
- I I'm, I'm confident that whatever you do next, it will be a cake walk compared to this hell hole.
- What did that consist of that probation was compared to my probation now that was such a cake walk.
Examples
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This is no cake walk.
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What, you thought it would be a cake walk? # #
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You understand, Jordan, this mission is no cake walk.
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(Bobby) Uh, looking forward to the, uh, cake walk.
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YOU SAID IT WOULD BE A CAKE WALK!
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UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WASN'T GOING TO BE A CAKE WALK.
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Completing the project ahead of schedule felt like a cake walk for the experienced team.
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She thought the exam would be difficult, but it turned out to be a cake walk.
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For him, adjusting to the new job was a cake walk after years of experience.
Synonyms
51
1.0
Something very easy to do
19
3.6
A task that is very easy to do
16
1.0
An easy task that needs little effort
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2.1
A task that is very easy to do
6
1.0
An activity that is very easy to do
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1.7
Very easy to do with little skill
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3.4
An easy task that you can do without much effort
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7.8
An easy task that needs little effort
A competition or test that is very easy to pass
Antonyms
How Easy
Surface Forms
Morphology
cake + walk
The meaning 'a task that is very easy' cannot be straightforwardly derived from 'cake' (a sweet baked food) and 'walk' (to move on foot); the literal constituents do not compose to give the idiomatic sense. Although English has other easy-related metaphors (e.g. 'piece of cake' or 'walkover'), 'cake walk' is idiomatic and its sense is not predictable for a B1 learner who only knows the individual words.
Etymology
Cake walk comes from old contests where people did a proud walk to show off and the winner received a cake. Because the walking seemed easy and relaxed, the phrase came to mean 'very easy'.