How do i refer to a "cake walk"?
we are hosting a fiesta for our fall festival. i would like to make our signs to reflect the day...how would I say "cake walk"?
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The cakewalk that megachaos is talking about has nothing to do with a 'task' or something being 'easy'. I have no idea what this would be in Spanish.
Cakewalk (carnival game) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cakewalk (or cake-walk) is a game played at carnivals, funfairs, and fundraising events. It is similar to a raffle and musical chairs.[1] It was supposedly invented by the Revd Lewis Daly after the scales broke for the "guess the weight of the pie" game at the St Margaret's Church annual fete of 1869 in King's Lynn, England.[2]
Numbered squares are laid out on a path. Tickets are sold to participants, with the number of squares in the path equal to the maximum number of tickets sold. The participants walk around the path in time to music, which plays for a duration and then stops. A number is then called out, and the person standing on the square with that number wins a cake as a prize (hence the name).
At a fundraiser event, the cakes are often donated. Multiple cakes are given out, one for each round.[3]
During the 1930s, the English poet John Betjeman described St Giles' Fair in Oxford as follows:
Here's what it really is: cakewalk
There's an English idom using the word, to suggest something is easy: "It's a cakewalk" or the negative, "It's not a cakewalk".
We have one of these in our phrasebook It's not a cakewalk = "No es tarea fácil"
You seem to be looking for a direct translation of the word out of context. I don't see one.
You might call it Pastel Passeo or Pastel Marcha. I like the first one because of the alliteration.
it depends because is a "slang" and every country in Latin America and Spain have different meanings for slangs.
I would say
es facilisimo or es un queque (in costa rica) or es muy facil.
