cake : Idioms & Phrases
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- a piece of cake
- Ague cake
- angel cake
- angel food cake
- applesauce cake
- ash cake
- birthday cake
- buckwheat cake
- cake mix
- Cake urchin
- caking coal
- cattle cake
- Cheese cake
- chiffon cake
- chocolate cake
- christmas cake
- coconut cake
- codfish cake
- coffee cake
- Corn cake
- cotton cake
- cottonseed cake
- crumb cake
- devil's food cake
- Dumb cake
- eccles cake
- fish cake
- flannel cake
- flannel-cake
- Haver cake
- honey cake
- hot cake
- ice-cream cake
- icebox cake
- johnny cake
- journey cake
- Land o' cakes
- layer cake
- Linseed cake
- madeira cake
- marble cake
- mill-cake
- neem cake
- Oil cake
- piece of cake
- pound cake
- prune cake
- Rape cake
- rock cake
- Salt cake
- seed cake
- shawnee cake
- skillet cake
- spice cake
- Sponge cake
- take the cake
- tipsy cake
- To have one's cake dough
- tough-cake
- twelfth -- cake
- upside-down cake
- Wafer cake
- wedding cake
- white cake
- Yeast cake
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
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noun a light sponge cake made without egg yolks
angel cake.
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angel food cake
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noun a light sponge cake made without egg yolks
angel cake.
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applesauce cake
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noun moist spicy cake containing applesauce
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ash cake
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noun corn bread wrapped in cabbage leaves and baked in hot ashes (southern)
corn tash; ashcake.
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birthday cake
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noun decorated cake served at a birthday party
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buckwheat cake
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noun a pancake made with buckwheat flour
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cake mix
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noun a commercial mix for making a cake
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Cake urchin
(Zoöl) , any species of flat sea urchins belonging to theClypeastroidea .
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caking coal
Cak"ing coal`
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See Coal .
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cattle cake
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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
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noun very light cake
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chocolate cake
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noun cake containing chocolate
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christmas cake
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noun a rich fruitcake (usually covered with icing and marzipan) and eaten at Christmas
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coconut cake
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noun cake containing shredded coconut in batter and frosting
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codfish cake
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noun usually made of flaked salt cod and mashed potatoes
codfish ball.
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coffee cake
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noun a cake or sweet bread usually served with coffee
coffeecake.
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Corn cake
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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
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noun the solid matter remaining after oil has been pressed from cottonseeds
cotton cake.
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cottonseed cake
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noun the solid matter remaining after oil has been pressed from cottonseeds
cotton cake.
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crumb cake
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noun cake or coffeecake topped with a mixture of sugar and butter and flour
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devil's food cake
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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
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noun a flat round cake of sweetened pastry filled with dried fruit
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fish cake
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noun a fried ball or patty of flaked fish and mashed potatoes
fish ball.
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flannel cake
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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
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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
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noun a spicy cake partially sweetened with honey
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hot cake
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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
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noun ice cream molded to look like a cake
ice-cream cake.
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icebox cake
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noun ice cream molded to look like a cake
ice-cream cake.
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johnny cake
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noun cornbread usually cooked pancake-style on a griddle (chiefly New England)
johnny cake; johnnycake.
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journey cake
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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
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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
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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
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noun made of light and dark batter very lightly blended
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mill-cake
Mill"-cake` noun
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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
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noun residue after oil is pressed from neem seeds
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Oil cake
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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
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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
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noun rich loaf cake made of a pound each of butter and sugar and flour
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prune cake
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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
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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
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noun a sweet cake flavored with sesame or caraway seeds and lemon
seedcake.
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shawnee cake
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noun form of johnnycake
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skillet cake
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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
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noun cake flavored with spices
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Sponge cake
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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
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verb rank first; used often in a negative context
- He takes the cake for chutzpah!
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tipsy cake
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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
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See Tough-pitch (b) .
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twelfth -- cake
Twelfth", cake` noun
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An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.
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upside-down cake
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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
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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
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noun cake made without egg yolks
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Yeast cake
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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.