Идиомы и фразеологизмы английского со словом cake. Страница два

Словосочетания со словом cake. Страница два

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pat-a-cake
A clapping game that keeps time to a nursery rhyme.
Mother played pat-a-cake with the baby.
sell like hot cakes
дословно: продаваться как горячие пирожки
Идти нарасхват; быстро распродоваться.
His new book is selling like hot cakes.
Его новая книга идет нарасхват.
spit into the wedding cake
piss into the wedding cake
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
To take the first prize; be the best; rank first.
Mr. Jones takes the cake as a storyteller.
To be the limit; to be the worst; have a lot of nerve; be a very rude, bold, or surprising action.
Быть на грани, быть худшим, требовать большого нервного напряжения; быть грубым, наглым.
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.
The behavior of the young girl takes the cake. It is terrible.
Поведение девочки превосходит все. Оно ужасно.