A PIECE OF CAKE
Eating a piece of cake is a very easy and pleasant thing to do. If somebody says that something is a piece of cake, they mean that it’s very easy to do. You can also say it’s as easy as pie.
DOWN IN THE DUMPS
Long ago the word dump used to mean a state of sadness or depression. It is no longer used in this sense, but the word survives in the plural in the expression down in the dumps. If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling low or depressed.
LOSE FACE
The most common meaning of face is the front part of the head, where your eyes, nose, and mouth are. But it can also be used to mean the visible part or surface of something, for example the front of a building, or the right side of a fabric or coin. From this developed the sense of outward appearance, and then ‘reputation’. So if you lose face, you lose the respect of other people.
SLEEP LIKE A LOG
A log is a thick, heavy piece of wood, cut from a tree. A log does not move, so if you sleep like a log, you sleep a deep and restful sleep, moving around very little or not at all.
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