[Ads-l] Antedating of "Piece of Cake"

[Shapiro, Fred]

piece of cake (OED 1936)

The OED's first use of the term "piece of cake" is dated 1936 by them.  The source is Ogden Nash's book The Primrose Path.  The 1936 dating is erroneous, it should be 1935.

Fred Shapiro

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