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ChelseaM6010
Untitled | Anonymous
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#IdiomInsight
Day 21. Piece of Cake
#PieceOfCake
Playing catch up a lot this month 😅🥲

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 🍰 🙌🏻❤️ 13mo
Eggs 👏🏻🍰💛 13mo
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dabbe
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ju.ca.no 😂 13mo
AnnCrystal 😃😄😂👏 13mo
dabbe @ju.ca.no @AnnCrystal 🤩🤗😍 13mo
Eggs 💛🍰💗 13mo
dabbe @Eggs 🧡💜💛 13mo
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DebinHawaii
Meet Your Baker | Ellie Alexander
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#IdiomInsight

The idiom #PieceOfCake describes something easily accomplished. It‘s presumed to be derived from the cakewalk, a competitive dance performed by black slaves which mocked the over-refined manners that plantation owners employed at their formal balls & where the winner received a cake.

The tagged book is the 1st in a fave bakery cozy mystery series. The MC bakes cakes & solves mysteries easily. Here are some of the “cakiest” covers.

Eggs I love the punny titles and the cosy nature of these mysteries 🩷🩷🩷 13mo
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GatheringBooks
Small Island: A Novel | Andrea Levy
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#IdiomInsight Day 21: There is literally a #PieceOfCake alongside this novel I started reading four months ago and just finished reading early this week. I feel a sense of accomplishment! Review is forthcoming this Saturday. 💕Part of my #DecolonizeReading2023 list. 📚📚📚

Eggs Nice cover ❤️💙💛 13mo
charl08 Nice cake! 13mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
Charms for Easy Life | Kaye Gibbons
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Kshakal
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Eggs 🩷🍰💛 13mo
kspenmoll Yum! 13mo
AnnCrystal 🤩🍰☺️. 13mo
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JuliaTheBookNerd
Carrot Cake Murder | Joanne Fluke
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I had no idea this idiom has such racist origins. Learn something new everyday.

#PieceOfCake 🍰 #IdiomInsight 🍁🍂

#BookNerd 🤓💙📚

Eggs I did not know this 🍰 13mo
CSeydel I‘m not sure that‘s true. That may be the origin of the idiom “cake walk” for something easy, but I thought the first known reference to “piece of cake” was Ogden Nash. 13mo
CSeydel (Also, slavery had ended by the 1870s) 13mo
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JuliaTheBookNerd @CSeydel from what I found the origin is like many idioms where there are 2 or more stories of the origin. Ogden Nash is the other well known origin. No one know which one is the true origin. 13mo
JuliaTheBookNerd @CSeydel There is also an origin story for this idiom that it originated in the Royal Air Force in the 1930s 🤷🏻‍♀️ Not sure which one is true but I went with the earliest reference origin 13mo
CSeydel Is there a historical source for the slave cake walk origin? Sometimes people get confused and post info on websites that isn‘t entirely accurate. I suppose it‘s the “1870s” error that is making me doubt. 13mo
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TheSpineView
The Cake Bible | Rose Levy Beranbaum, Dean G. Bornstein
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Eggs Wow 🍰🍫 13mo
TheSpineView @Eggs 🌞🍰 13mo
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IndoorDame
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#PieceOfCake was apparently the prize in a Cakewalk which according to the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (currently being written) was a contest in which Black people would perform a stylized walk in pairs whose movements mimicked formal dances of white society, typically judged by a plantation owner. The winner would receive some type of cake. There's a debate about whether the enslavers knew they were being mocked. #IdiomInsight

Eggs Brilliant 🍰 13mo
dabbe Shocked, but then not shocked. We as humans can be perfectly despicable sometimes. 😳 13mo
IndoorDame @dabbe I know! Definitely not the first of these idioms to make me think, it‘s past time we retired this one 13mo
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Librarybelle
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Not exactly what I expected - I thought that this story would incorporate the Disney princesses into one big baking frenzy together. Instead, it‘s kind of short stories of each princess or heroine randomly deciding to bake. For most, it‘s a #PieceOfCake . Disney fans will recognize the princesses and their supporting characters. Simple words and sentence structure, so a good #EasyReader . #BBRC

LibrarianRyan I have been more unimpressed by the Disney easy readers. It‘s like they are phoning it in. 1y
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