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Qué (quién) es Twelfth-cake - definición

PLAY WRITTEN BY W. S. GILBERT

The Story of a Twelfth Cake

Twelfth-cake

·noun An ornamented cake distributed among friends or visitors on the festival of Twelfth-night.

cake

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE

Cake (movie); Cake (song); CAKE; Cake (film); Cake (TV series)

(cakes)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

A cake is a sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, and fat in an oven. Cakes may be large and cut into slices or small and intended for one person only.

...a piece of cake...

Would you like some chocolate cake?

...little cakes with white icing.

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2.

Food that is formed into flat round shapes before it is cooked can be referred to as cakes.

...fish cakes.

...home-made potato cakes.

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3.

A cake of soap is a small block of it.

...a small cake of lime-scented soap.

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4.

If you think that someone wants the benefits of doing two things when it is only reasonable to expect the benefits of doing one, you can say that they want to have their cake and eat it.

What he wants is a switch to a market economy in a way which does not reduce people's standard of living. To many this sounds like wanting to have his cake and eat it.

PHRASE: Vs inflect [disapproval]

5.

If you think something is very easy to do, you can say it is a piece of cake. People often say this to stop someone feeling worried about doing something they have to do. (INFORMAL)

Just another surveillance job, old chap. Piece of cake to somebody like you.

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6.

If someone has done something very stupid, rude, or selfish, you can say that they take the cake or that what they have done takes the cake, to emphasize your surprise at their behaviour. (AM; in BRIT, use take the biscuit
)

= take the biscuit

PHRASE: V inflects [emphasis]

7.

the icing on the cake: see icing

Cake

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE

Cake (movie); Cake (song); CAKE; Cake (film); Cake (TV series)

Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, and which share features with desserts such as pastries, meringues, custards, and pies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cake

Wikipedia

Foggerty's Fairy

Foggerty's Fairy, subtitled "An Entirely Original Fairy Farce", is a three-act farce by W.S. Gilbert based loosely on Gilbert's short story, "The Story of a Twelfth Cake", which was published in the Christmas Number of The Graphic in 1874, and elements of other Gilbert plays. The story concerns a man who, with the help of a fairy, changes a small event in his past to try to save his engagement to the girl he loves. This leads to profound changes in his present, and he finds that matters are even worse than before.

Foggerty's Fairy opened at the Criterion Theatre in London on 15 December 1881. Charles Wyndham, the manager of the Criterion, starred as the lead character, Frederick Foggerty. Despite Wyndham's star power, interest in the play's bold and original premise and reviews that were at least partly positive, the play was not a success. It closed on 6 January 1882 after about 25 performances. Disappointed, Gilbert turned back to writing comic operas with Arthur Sullivan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foggerty's Fairy