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The expression a piece of cake is used to describe something which is seen to be extremely easy to do. In Spanish, the expression \u00abPan comido\u00bb<\/em><\/strong> is used in the same way. <\/span><\/p>\n First of all, how do we pronounce it? Now let\u00b4s see it in use… Origin<\/strong><\/em> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The expression a piece of cake is used to describe something which is seen to be extremely easy to do. In Spanish, the expression \u00abPan comido\u00bb is used in the same way. First of all, how do we pronounce it? Using a phonetic table: A \u00a0\/\u0259\/ piece \/pi\u02d0s\/ of\u00a0\/\u0259v\/ cake \/ke\u026ak\/ Or for you Spanish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101011,"featured_media":2271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[134,135],"yoast_head":"\n
\nUsing a phonetic table:
\nA \u00a0\/\u0259\/
\npiece \/pi\u02d0s\/
\nof\u00a0\/\u0259v\/
\ncake \/ke\u026ak\/
\nOr for you Spanish out there, you can pronounce it like this: a-pis- av- keik \u263a<\/p>\n
\nMary \u00abHow was your exam yesterday, Sandra?\u00bb Sandra \u00abA piece of cake!\u00bb
\nBaking my daughter’s wedding cake was not\u00a0a piece of cake!
\nWriting essays is\u00a0a piece of cake\u00a0for her. She’s so lucky.<\/p>\n
\nIt is believed that the idea of cake being \u201ceasy\u201d originated in the 1870\u2019s when cakes were given out as prizes for winning competitions. In particular, there was a tradition in the US slavery states where slaves would walk around a cake at a gathering. The most \u201cgraceful\u201d pair would win the cake the in middle. From this the term \u201ccake walk\u201d and \u201ca piece of cake\u201d came into being, both meaning that something was easy to accomplish.
\nWe know that the expression first appeared in written records in 1936, in Ogden Nash’s\u00a0Primrose Path:
\n\u00abHer picture\u2019s in the papers now, And life\u2019s a piece of cake.\u00bb
\nIt was then quickly adopted in Britain and used especially by the RAF (Royal Air Force) in World War II.
\nAnd here\u2019s a later usage, from Terry McLean\u2019s\u00a0Kings of Rugby (1960):
\n\u201cThey took the field against Canterbury as if the match were \u2018a piece of cake.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n