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单词 cake and gingerbread
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cake and gingerbread
cake and gingerbread n. Obsolete something easily accomplished or dealt with; an easy or pleasant experience; cf. piece of cake n. at piece n. Phrases 15. [In quot. 1755 and in other translations of Cervantes after Spanish tortas y pan pintado (1549) in similar use.]
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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.
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