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Definition of cakewalk in English: cakewalknoun ˈkeɪkwɔːkˈkeɪkˌwɔk 1informal An absurdly or surprisingly easy task. winning the league won't be a cakewalk for them Example sentencesExamples - And so has this story, this investigation, this scandal, changed the election from what was a cakewalk into now possibly a defeat for the prime minister?
- Let's just get this part over with, then the rest will be a cakewalk.
- It's the psychological condition that allowed them and their followers to convince themselves that invading and occupying a large but dysfunctional country would be a cakewalk.
- The First Amendment, we should recall, would be a cakewalk if people expressed themselves within prescribed boundaries of acceptable speech.
- As tough as it may be to get hired in political science, it's a cakewalk compared to getting a position in, say, English departments.
- For his city-dwelling clients, the climb isn't such a cakewalk.
- Pardon the mixed metaphor, but as those of us who rode the roller coaster from start to finish know, this isn't, alas, a team that's mastered the art of the cakewalk.
- My Spanish exam was a cakewalk, I finished in about 20 minutes.
- ‘To get established was not easy, it was not a cakewalk for me,’ she admits.
- Although I suspect the match will be a cakewalk, we are going to take it very seriously.
- From here on, international tournaments will not be American All-Star cakewalks.
- ‘I knew from day one of joining the four-month course that passing the exam would be a cakewalk,’ he says, with a twinkle in his eyes.
- The fact that the guard was a thin man considerably shorter than Walker made the task seem like a cakewalk.
- Today the soon-to-be Senate majority leader suggested things won't necessarily be a cakewalk for his own party in the new Senate.
- But that does not mean that Roberts’ trip to the high bench will be a cakewalk, nor should it be.
- It was not exactly a cakewalk for the actresses either: ‘There is a lot of Urdu used in the film and we had to work on our diction as well as dance for the songs.’
- I don't think it's going to be a cakewalk for us to stay there.
- I don't think anybody knows how long it would take, and I don't think anybody should go on the impression that it's going to be easy or a cakewalk or whatever those phrases are that people use.
- It annoys us a bit that some people assumed that after beating Cork this would be a bit of a cakewalk for us, that we'd go up there and beat them well.
- But fortunately, for even the most dunderheaded of theatre-goers - your reviewer included - acting in this play should prove a cakewalk.
Synonyms easy task, easy job, child's play, five-finger exercise, gift, walkover, nothing, sinecure, gravy train 2historical A dancing contest among black Americans in which a cake was awarded as a prize. Example sentencesExamples - It arose in the slavery period as an accompaniment to plantation dances like the cakewalk.
- As a cultural form, the cakewalk originated on the antebellum plantation as a key vehicle of black resistance against enslavement.
- I learned that the cakewalk, a highstepping dance, began on Southern plantations in the 1840s.
- Linked to West African dance forms, the joyous strutting of the cakewalks implied that the plantation was a sunny home with happy slaves; beneath that facade, however, the dance actually mocked the slave owners.
- 2.1 A strutting dance popularized by minstrel shows in the late 19th century.
Example sentencesExamples - New to audiences might be the fact that the lindy hop, along with the Charleston, cakewalk, minstrel blues and boogie-woogie, was not originally called swing, but rather jazz.
- Dream ballets and integrated dance numbers replaced flashy kick lines, and for a while, it looked as if tap would go the way of the cakewalk and the waltz, pretty much disappearing from our musical theater.
- Starting with footage shot by Thomas Edison (yes, the Thomas Edison), this magnificent compilation takes us from dances like the cakewalk to the jitterbug.
- Her dance revue, Le Jazz Hot, included vernacular forms like the shimmy, black bottom, shorty george and the cakewalk.
verbˈkeɪkwɔːkˈkeɪkˌwɔk [no object]1informal Achieve or win something easily. he cakewalked to a 5–1 triumph Example sentencesExamples - Not surprisingly, he cakewalked through the competition, reinforcing his father's belief that his son would also rise through the bodybuilding ranks.
- Had they played sensibly they could have cakewalked that game.
- Tell me again why the Liberals are expected to cakewalk through the coming election?
- ‘I wouldn't want to be cakewalking through games and then get to the playoffs and not have this kind of experience, ‘Donovan said.’
- Only a few teams have a chance to prevent Arizona from cakewalking through the rest of the season.
2Walk or dance in the manner of a cakewalk. a troupe of clowns cakewalked by Example sentencesExamples - As the troupe becomes even more successful, their stage set at the Maxwell Theater features a huge Sambo backdrop through whose grinning mouth the minstrels cakewalk onto the stage.
- The whole Virginia Minstrels chorus joins in while cakewalking in line behind Emmett.
Definition of cakewalk in US English: cakewalknounˈkeɪkˌwɔkˈkākˌwôk 1informal An absurdly or surprisingly easy task. winning the game won't be a cakewalk Example sentencesExamples - It's the psychological condition that allowed them and their followers to convince themselves that invading and occupying a large but dysfunctional country would be a cakewalk.
- But fortunately, for even the most dunderheaded of theatre-goers - your reviewer included - acting in this play should prove a cakewalk.
- The fact that the guard was a thin man considerably shorter than Walker made the task seem like a cakewalk.
- But that does not mean that Roberts’ trip to the high bench will be a cakewalk, nor should it be.
- It was not exactly a cakewalk for the actresses either: ‘There is a lot of Urdu used in the film and we had to work on our diction as well as dance for the songs.’
- ‘I knew from day one of joining the four-month course that passing the exam would be a cakewalk,’ he says, with a twinkle in his eyes.
- Pardon the mixed metaphor, but as those of us who rode the roller coaster from start to finish know, this isn't, alas, a team that's mastered the art of the cakewalk.
- Today the soon-to-be Senate majority leader suggested things won't necessarily be a cakewalk for his own party in the new Senate.
- For his city-dwelling clients, the climb isn't such a cakewalk.
- The First Amendment, we should recall, would be a cakewalk if people expressed themselves within prescribed boundaries of acceptable speech.
- Let's just get this part over with, then the rest will be a cakewalk.
- ‘To get established was not easy, it was not a cakewalk for me,’ she admits.
- It annoys us a bit that some people assumed that after beating Cork this would be a bit of a cakewalk for us, that we'd go up there and beat them well.
- My Spanish exam was a cakewalk, I finished in about 20 minutes.
- And so has this story, this investigation, this scandal, changed the election from what was a cakewalk into now possibly a defeat for the prime minister?
- As tough as it may be to get hired in political science, it's a cakewalk compared to getting a position in, say, English departments.
- From here on, international tournaments will not be American All-Star cakewalks.
- Although I suspect the match will be a cakewalk, we are going to take it very seriously.
- I don't think it's going to be a cakewalk for us to stay there.
- I don't think anybody knows how long it would take, and I don't think anybody should go on the impression that it's going to be easy or a cakewalk or whatever those phrases are that people use.
Synonyms easy task, easy job, child's play, five-finger exercise, gift, walkover, nothing, sinecure, gravy train 2historical A dancing contest among African Americans in which a cake was awarded as a prize. Example sentencesExamples - Linked to West African dance forms, the joyous strutting of the cakewalks implied that the plantation was a sunny home with happy slaves; beneath that facade, however, the dance actually mocked the slave owners.
- It arose in the slavery period as an accompaniment to plantation dances like the cakewalk.
- I learned that the cakewalk, a highstepping dance, began on Southern plantations in the 1840s.
- As a cultural form, the cakewalk originated on the antebellum plantation as a key vehicle of black resistance against enslavement.
- 2.1 A strutting dance popularized by minstrel shows in the late 19th century.
Example sentencesExamples - Starting with footage shot by Thomas Edison (yes, the Thomas Edison), this magnificent compilation takes us from dances like the cakewalk to the jitterbug.
- Her dance revue, Le Jazz Hot, included vernacular forms like the shimmy, black bottom, shorty george and the cakewalk.
- New to audiences might be the fact that the lindy hop, along with the Charleston, cakewalk, minstrel blues and boogie-woogie, was not originally called swing, but rather jazz.
- Dream ballets and integrated dance numbers replaced flashy kick lines, and for a while, it looked as if tap would go the way of the cakewalk and the waltz, pretty much disappearing from our musical theater.
verbˈkeɪkˌwɔkˈkākˌwôk [no object]1informal Achieve or win something easily. he cakewalked to a 5-1 triumph Example sentencesExamples - Had they played sensibly they could have cakewalked that game.
- Not surprisingly, he cakewalked through the competition, reinforcing his father's belief that his son would also rise through the bodybuilding ranks.
- Only a few teams have a chance to prevent Arizona from cakewalking through the rest of the season.
- Tell me again why the Liberals are expected to cakewalk through the coming election?
- ‘I wouldn't want to be cakewalking through games and then get to the playoffs and not have this kind of experience, ‘Donovan said.’
2Walk or dance in the manner of a cakewalk. a troupe of clowns cakewalked by Example sentencesExamples - As the troupe becomes even more successful, their stage set at the Maxwell Theater features a huge Sambo backdrop through whose grinning mouth the minstrels cakewalk onto the stage.
- The whole Virginia Minstrels chorus joins in while cakewalking in line behind Emmett.
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