| 单词 | cake and gingerbread |
| 释义 | > as lemmascake and gingerbread ΚΠ 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. iii. 434 I would look upon that machine, which comes upon us, with contempt, as so much cake and gingerbread. 1800 W. Gifford Epist. to Peter Pindar (ed. 3) 57 You have received many canings..but none of them..would have been more than cakes and gingerbread to the exquisite drubbing you would have received from me. 1838 Amer. Turf. Reg. Oct. 451 This you will say is bad, but sir, it is cakes and gingerbread to the manner in which I was once served at a course in South Carolina. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley vi. 32 The marshalling a room full of mandarins was ‘cake and gingerbread’ to ushering a Galway party in to dinner. < as lemmas |
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