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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

du gâteau

easy, a piece of cake
(literal, unused translation: of the cake)

Pour moi, ce sera plutôt difficile, mais pour lui ce sera du gâteau.
For me, it will be rather difficult, but for him, it’ll be a piece of cake.

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Vocabulary Section: Idiom Expressions, Word of the Day