I knew little about English when I first came to America, so everyday I went to a language school to learn English. One day during the break I asked one of my classmates a question which I didn’t understand. Then I thanked her for it, and she said:“You are welcome! It’s a piece of cake!” I thought to myself: America is really a society for money in which everything is done for pay, so I asked her:“I hadn’t taken any pieces of cake with me today, what about a piece of biscuit?” She showed a puzzled expression first, then she smiled. Knowing that she hadn’t got her words accoss, she said, “A piece of cake means ‘No problem’, and it’s just a traffle thing.” On hearing that, I came to learn that a piece of cake not only means a piece of cake, but also means things that is very easy.
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