Hi ChatterFoxes do you like cake Americans love cake so there are a lot
of American expressions about cake and in this video you're going to learn five
of them and also how to pronounce them even better than a native before we get
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let's start with the first expression about cake the expression is piece of
cake piece of cake means super easy so for example you
could say that exam was a piece of cake which would mean that exam was super
easy piece of cake when you pronounce piece of cake the of reduces to a piece
of cake piece of cake piece of cake great job the next
expression is take the cake take the cake means to get a prize or to win to
be on top of something to take the cake it means you get the cake you get the
prize you win take the cake for example if someone tells you a really funny
story then you could say wow that takes the cake meaning that's the funniest
story that I've heard take the cake when you say take the cake this word the
reduces to the take the cake take the cake next the expression the icing on
the cake the icing on the cake means something good that happens after
another good thing for example maybe one day you get a promotion and you also get
some good news about someone in your family and then you eat your favorite
meal for dinner you could say that the icing on the cake of your day was the
great dinner the icing on the cake it just means something good that happens
after something else good the icing on the cake when you say icing on the cake
the sound at the end of icing reduces to mmm the icing on the icing on the icing
on the cake great the next expression is to have your cake and eat it too to have
your cake and eat it too means wanting to things that are contradictory so for
example let's say that you want a farm but you also want to live in a nice
apartment in the middle of the city someone may say to you well you can't
have your cake and eat it too it means that you can't keep your cake and also
eat it because if you eat the cake then the cake is gone so when you want to
things that you can't have both at the same time then someone may say to you
you can't have your cake and eat it too when you say this phrase can't has a
stop T you can't have your so the your reduces to your cake and reduces to
mm-hmm so when you say the phrase is you can't
have your cake and eat it too you can't have your cake and eat it too great and
the last expression with cake that we're going to learn is to love something like
a fat kid loves cake so for example I love teaching pronunciation like a fat
kid loves cake so it's just another way a funny way to say
you love something a lot love something like a fat kid loves cake when you say
the word fat the sound turns into a stop T fat kid so it kind of blends together
with the word kid like a fat kid loves cake great so now that you know all of
these expressions about cake in American English I have a question for you what
is something that you love like a fat kid loves cake tell us about it in the
comment section below can't wait to hear from you great job
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