piece of cake

piece  (ps)

n.

1. A thing considered as a unit or an element of a larger thing, quantity, or class; a portion: a piece of string.

2. A portion or part that has been separated from a whole: a piece of cake.

3. An object that is one member of a group or class: a piece of furniture.

4. An artistic, musical, or literary work or composition: "They are lively and well-plotted pieces, both in prose" (Tucker Brooke).

5. An instance; a specimen: a piece of sheer folly.

6. A declaration of one's opinions or findings: speak one's piece.

7. A coin: a ten-cent piece.

8. Games

a. One of the counters or figures used in playing various board games.

b. Any one of the chess figures other than a pawn.

9. Slang A firearm, especially a rifle.

10. Informal A given distance: "There was farm country down the road on the right a piece" (James Agee).

11. Vulgar Slang A sexually attractive person.

tr.v. pieced, piec·ing, piec·es

1. To mend by adding pieces or a piece to.

2. To join or unite the pieces of: He pieced together the vase. She pieced together an account of what had gone on during the stormy meeting.

Idioms:

a piece of (one's) mind

Frank and severe criticism; censure.

of a piece

Belonging to the same class or kind.

piece by piece

In stages: took the clock apart piece by piece.

piece of cake

Informal Something very easy to do: "Relearning to fly was a piece of cake" (Burton Bernstein).

piece of the action Slang

A share of an activity or of profits: "a piece of the action in a Florida land deal" (Shana Alexander).

piece of work

A remarkable person, achievement, or product: "He's a very tough piece of work" (Ted Koppel).

---

[Middle English pece, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *pettia, probably of Celtic origin.]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

piece of cake - any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" child's play, cinch, duck soup, picnic, pushover, breeze, walkover, snap doddle - an easy task project, task, undertaking, labor - any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted; "he prepared for great undertakings"