cake : Idioms & Phrases


a piece of cake

  • a task easily accomplished.
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Ague cake

  • an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague.
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angel cake

  • noun a light sponge cake made without egg yolks
    angel cake.
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angel food cake

  • noun a light sponge cake made without egg yolks
    angel cake.
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applesauce cake

  • noun moist spicy cake containing applesauce
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ash cake

  • noun corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern)
    corn tash; ashcake.
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birthday cake

  • noun decorated cake served at a birthday party
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buckwheat cake

  • noun a pancake made with buckwheat flour
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cake mix

  • noun a commercial mix for making a cake
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Cake urchin

  • (Zoöl), any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea .
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caking coal

Cak"ing coal`
Definitions
  1. See Coal.
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cattle cake

  • noun a concentrated feed for cattle; processed in the form of blocks or cakes
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Cheese cake

  • a cake made of or filled with, a composition of soft curds, sugar, and butter. Prior.
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chiffon cake

  • noun very light cake
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chocolate cake

  • noun cake containing chocolate
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christmas cake

  • noun a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas
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coconut cake

  • noun cake containing shredded coconut in batter and frosting
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codfish cake

  • noun usually made of flaked salt cod and mashed potatoes
    codfish ball.
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coffee cake

  • noun a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee
    coffeecake.
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Corn cake

  • noun baked in a pan or on a griddle (southern and midland)
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  • a kind of corn bread; johnny cake; hoecake.
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cotton cake

  • noun the solid matter remaining after oil has been pressed from cottonseeds
    cotton cake.
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cottonseed cake

  • noun the solid matter remaining after oil has been pressed from cottonseeds
    cotton cake.
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crumb cake

  • noun cake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour
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devil's food cake

  • noun very dark chocolate cake
    devil's food.
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Dumb cake

  • a cake made in silence by girls on St. Mark's eve, with certain mystic ceremonies, to discover their future husbands. Halliwell.
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eccles cake

  • noun a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit
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fish cake

  • noun a fried ball or patty of flaked fish and mashed potatoes
    fish ball.
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flannel cake

  • noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
    flapjack; flannel-cake; hotcake; griddlecake; flapcake; pancake; battercake; flannel cake.
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flannel-cake

  • noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
    flapjack; flannel-cake; hotcake; griddlecake; flapcake; pancake; battercake; flannel cake.
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Haver cake

  • oaten cake. Piers Plowman.
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honey cake

  • noun a spicy cake partially sweetened with honey
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hot cake

  • noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
    flapjack; flannel-cake; hotcake; griddlecake; flapcake; pancake; battercake; flannel cake.
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ice-cream cake

  • noun ice cream molded to look like a cake
    ice-cream cake.
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icebox cake

  • noun ice cream molded to look like a cake
    ice-cream cake.
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johnny cake

  • noun cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
    johnny cake; johnnycake.
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journey cake

  • noun cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
    johnny cake; johnnycake.
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Land o' cakes

  • Scotland.
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layer cake

  • noun cake having layers held together by a sweet filling and usually covered with frosting
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Linseed cake

  • the solid mass or cake which remains when oil is expressed.
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madeira cake

  • noun a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine
    Madeira sponge.
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marble cake

  • noun made of light and dark batter very lightly blended
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mill-cake

Mill"-cake` noun
Definitions
  1. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.
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neem cake

  • noun residue after oil is pressed from neem seeds
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Oil cake

  • noun mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock
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  • the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes.
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piece of cake

  • noun any undertaking that is easy to do
    picnic; walkover; duck soup; breeze; child's play; cinch; snap; pushover.
    • marketing this product will be no picnic
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pound cake

  • noun rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour
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prune cake

  • noun moist cake containing prunes that have been made into a puree
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Rape cake

  • the refuse remaining after the oil has been expressed from the seed.
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rock cake

  • noun a small cake with a hard surface said to resemble a rock
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Salt cake

  • (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of the first stage in the manufacture of soda, according to Leblanc's process.
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seed cake

  • noun a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon
    seedcake.
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shawnee cake

  • noun form of johnnycake
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skillet cake

  • noun batter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top
    skillet cake.
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spice cake

  • noun cake flavored with spices
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Sponge cake

  • noun a light porous cake made with eggs and flour and sugar without shortening
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  • a kind of sweet cake which is light and spongy.
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take the cake

  • verb rank first; used often in a negative context
    • He takes the cake for chutzpah!
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tipsy cake

  • noun a trifle soaked in wine and decorated with almonds and candied fruit
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To have one's cake dough

  • to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected.
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tough-cake

Tough"-cake` noun
Definitions
  1. See Tough-pitch (b).
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twelfth -- cake

Twelfth", cake` noun
Definitions
  1. An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.
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upside-down cake

  • noun batter baked atop a layer of sweetened fruit then turned upside down so fruit is on top
    skillet cake.
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Wafer cake

  • a sweet, thin cake. Shak.
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wedding cake

  • noun a rich cake with two or more tiers and covered with frosting and decorations; served at a wedding reception
    bridecake.
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white cake

  • noun cake made without egg yolks
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Yeast cake

  • noun small cake of compressed moist yeast
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  • a mealy cake impregnated with the live germs of the yeast plant, and used as a conveniently transportable substitute for yeast.
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