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piece_of_cake

piece of cake

English

Noun

a piece of cake

Used other than as an idiom: see piece,‎ cake.
(idiomatic) A job, task or other activity that is pleasant – or, by extension, easy or simple.
Sure, no problem. It'll be a piece of cake.

Synonyms

(an activity that is easy): breeze, cakewalk, child's play, cinch, doddle, duck soup, walk in the park, walkover
See also Wikisaurus:easy thing

Translations

simple or easy job

Arabic: بسيطَة f, لقمَة سائغَة f
Armenian: խաղ ու պար ‎(xał u par)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 非常容易的事 ‎(fēicháng róngyì de shì), 小菜一碟 (zh) ‎(xiǎocàiyīdié), 易如反掌 (zh) ‎(yìrúfǎnzhǎng)
Czech: hračka (cs) f
Danish:
Estonian: käkitegu
Finnish: helppo nakki (fi)
French: du gâteau (fr)
German: Kinderspiel (de) n, Pillepalle (de) f
Hebrew: משחק ילדים (he) ‎(miskhak yeladim (lit., child's play))
Hungarian: gyerekjáték (hu)
Icelandic: ekkert mál (is), barnaleikur (is)
Italian: gioco da ragazzi, una cosa da niente
Japanese: 朝飯前 (ja) ‎(あさめしまえ, asameshimae)

Korean: 누워서 떡 먹기 (ko) ‎(nuwoseo tteog meokki)
Norwegian: barnemat
Persian:
Polish: bułka z masłem (pl)
Portuguese: to be a piece of cake: ser moleza
Romanian: floare la ureche
Russian: про́ще пареной репы (ru) ‎(próšče parenoj repy) (lit., "simpler than stew turnip"), раз плю́нуть (ru) ‎(raz pljúnutʹ) (lit., "just to spit once"), как два пальца обоссать (ru) ‎(kak dva palʹca obossatʹ) (lit., "like to piss onto two fingers")
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: ма̏чјӣ ка̏шаљ

Roman: mȁčjī kȁšalj (sh)
Slovak: bufet m
Spanish: coser y cantar, bicoca (es) f, pan comido (es), papita pal loro
Swedish: barnlek c
Turkish: (lit. child's toy) çocuk oyuncağı (tr)
Ukrainian:

References

↑ “piece of cake”, The Phrase Finder, Gary Martin.