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Something easily accomplished, as in I had no trouble finding your house—a piece of cake. This expression originated in the Royal Air Force in the late 1930s for an easy mission, and the precise reference is as mysterious as that of the simile easy as pie. Possibly it evokes the easy accomplishment of swallowing a slice of sweet dessert.

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The well, ghost or no ghost, is certainly a piece of history with a bold presence.
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My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.
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Last March they gave Airbus a huge piece of new business, ordering 169 A320s and 65 of the slightly larger A321.
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The attempt to “breed back” the Auroch of Teutonic legend was of a piece with the Nazi obsession with racial purity and eugenics.
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However, an article designed to act as a tie-in to the piece has been published as planned in the BBC magazine Radio Times.
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I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
I was busy loading the piece when an exclamation of surprise from one of the men made me look up.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.
Confidence|Henry James
With a groan, wrung from the very depths of his heart, he tossed the man a gold-piece; another to the woman.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson

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