Смысл: ague-cake

ague-cake[ʹeıgju:keık]
n мед.
<Í> увеличение селезёнки при хронической малярии

cake Идиома

a piece of cake

easy to do, it's a snap, no problem Solving the puzzle was easy. It was a piece o' cake.

be a piece of cake

be very easy.

cheesecake

naked flesh, bare skin The dancer provided lots of cheesecake - lots of bare leg.

have your cake and eat it, too

have something after you have eaten or spent it, have it both ways You want to spend your money and still have it. You can't have your cake and eat it, too!

icing on the cake

a bonus, extra benefit, the rest is gravy We've sold enough tickets to pay for the trip. This money from the Elks Club is icing on the cake!

nutty as a fruit cake

funny, kooky, mad as a hatter Do I know Karl? Yes, I do. He's nutty as a fruit cake!

nutty as a fruitcake

very crazy The woman who lives next door to us is as nutty as a fruitcake.

piece of cake

(See a piece of cake)

sell like hotcakes

sell quickly, sell rapidly The tickets for the football game were selling like hotcakes when I inquired this morning.

take the cake

is the worst or the weirdest or the funniest etc. Of all the people I've met, you take the cake! You're the wildest!

that takes the cake

that is the strangest or loudest or wildest etc. I've seen big pumpkins, but that takes the cake! It's fifty pounds!

barmcake

1. a lighthearted term for a fool or idiot
2. a bread bun

cake

1. easy, simple:"I didn't need to study so hard for that test. It was cake"
2. money: "$500? That's some serious cake"

cake-hole

the mouth:"Shut your cake-hole"

ho cake

vagina

pancake

hydraulics maneuver where a car goes from all wheels high to all wheels low:"Pancake, front-to-back, side-to-side, and all that shit" -- Dr. Dre (Let me ride [1992]

slice of the cake

Idiom(s): slice of the cake

Theme: PORTION

a share of something.
• There's not much work around and so everyone must get a slice of the cake.
• The company makes huge profits and the workers want a slice of the cake.

have one's cake and eat it too

Idiom(s): have one's cake and eat it too AND eat one's cake and have it too

Theme: GREED

to enjoy both having something and using it up; to have it both ways. (Usually stated in the negative.)
• Tom wants to have his cake and eat it too. It can't be done.
• Don't buy a car if you want to walk and stay healthy. You can't eat your cake and have it too.

flat as a pancake

Idiom(s): (as) flat as a pancake

Theme: FLATNESS

very flat. (Informal.)
• The punctured tire was as flat as a pancake.
• Bobby squashed the ant flat as a pancake.

eat one's cake and have it too

Cake's not worth the candle

If someone says that the cake's not worth the candle, they mean that the result will not be worth the effort put in to achieve it.

Dropped like a hot cake

If something is dropped like a hot cake, it is rejected or disposed of very quickly.

Have your cake and eat it too

If someone wants to have their cake and eat it too, they want everything their way, especially when their wishes are contradictory.

Pieces of the same cake

Pieces of the same cake are things that have the same characteristics or qualities.

Sell like hot cakes

If a product is selling very well, it is selling like hot cakes.

You can't have cake and the topping, too

(USA) This idiom means that you can't have everything the way you want it, especially if your desires are contradictory.

You can't have your cake and eat it

This idiom means that you can't have things both ways. For example, you can't have very low taxes and a high standard of state care.

eat one's cake and have it too|cake|eat

v. phr. To use or spend something and still keep it; have both when you must choose one of two things. Often used in negative sentences. Roger can't make up his mind whether to go to college or get a job. You can't eat your cake and have it too. Mary wants to buy a beautiful dress she saw at the store, but she also wants to save her birthday money for camp. She wants to eat her cake and have it too.

flat as a pancake|flat|pancake

adj. phr. Very level; very flat; having no mountains or hills. A great part of the American Midwest is as flat as a pancake.

have one's cake and eat it too|cake|eat|have

v. phr. To enjoy two opposite advantages. You can either spend your money going to Europe or save it for a down payment on a house, but you can't do both. That would be having your cake and eating it, too.

nutty as a fruitcake|fruitcake|nutty

adj. phr., slang Very crazy; entirely mad. He looked all right, as we watched him approach, but when he began to talk, we saw that he was as nutty as a fruitcake.

pat-a-cake|cake|pat

n. A clapping game that keeps time to a nursery rhyme. Mother played pat-a-cake with the baby.

piece of cake|cake|easy|easy as pie|pie|piece

adj., slang Easy. The final exam was a piece of cake.

piss into the wedding cake|cake|piss|spit into the

v. phr., vulgar, avoidable To spoil someone's pleasure or celebration by doing or saying something harsh or unseemly in an otherwise happy gathering; bring up depressing or unhappy subjects at a supposedly happy time. Stuart really spit into the wedding cake when he told Burt in a bragging fashion that Lucy, Burl's bride, used to be his girlfriend.

take the cake|cake|take

v. phr., slang 1. To take the first prize; be the best; rank first. Mr. Jones takes the cake as a storyteller. 2. To be the limit; to be the worst; have a lot of nerve; be a very rude, bold, or surprising action. I let Jack borrow my baseball and he never gave it back. Doesn't that take the cake? For being absent-minded, Mr. Smith takes the cake.
Compare: BEAT ALL.

eat one's cake and have it, too

eat one's cake and have it, too
Also, have one's cake and eat it, too. Have a dual benefit, consume something and still possess it, as in Doug was engaged to Ann and still dating Jane; he was trying to eat his cake and have it, too. This metaphoric expression is often put negatively, as it already was in John Heywood's proverb collection of 1546: “You cannot eat your cake and have your cake.”

frosting on the cake

frosting on the cake
see icing on the cake.

fruitcake

fruitcake
see nutty as a fruitcake.

have one's cake and eat it, too

have one's cake and eat it, too
see eat one's cake and have it, too.

hot cake

hot cake
sell like hot cakes
Informal to be sold rapidly and in large quantities

hotcake

hotcake
go
/sell like hotcakes Informal
To be disposed of quickly; be in great demand: Programs for the championship game went like hotcakes.

like hot cakes, go

like hot cakes, go
Also, sell like hot cakes. Be a great commercial success, as in I'm sure this new line of coats will go like hot cakes, or She was thrilled that her new book was selling like hot cakes. This term alludes to hot cakes, another name for griddle cakes or pancakes, which are so popular at church sales, food fairs, and similar events that they tend to sell as quickly as they are cooked. [Mid-1800s]

More Idioms/Phrases

like death warmed over like fun like gangbusters like hot cakes, go like pigs in clover like rolling off a log like shooting fish in a barrel

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