馅饼（pie）和蛋糕（cake）是老外爱吃的东西。因为与他们的日常生活密切相关，所以被用以喻人喻事也就不足为怪了。

1. take the cake: 名列第一；优胜

Of all the hard-hearted women, she takes the cake.

女性中能像她那么铁石心肠的，恐怕再也没谁了。

2. eat humble pie: 忍气吞声；低头认罪

I think I'm right, but if I'm wrong, I'll eat humble pie.

我觉得我是对的。不过如果能证明我错，我甘愿认罪。

3. go/sell like hot cakes: 热销，畅销

I'm sure this new line of coats will go like hot cakes.

我确信这种新款外套一定会畅销。

4. a piece of cake/as easy as pie: 小菜一碟，小事一桩

Glad to help. It was a piece of cake.

很高兴能帮上忙。这一点也不难。

5. eat one's cake and have it too: 得其利而无其害，两者兼得（多用于否定句中）

Don't buy a car if you want to walk and stay healthy. You can't eat your cake and have it too.

如果你想要走路、想要保持健康，就别买车。鱼和熊掌不可兼得。

6. pie in the sky: 渺茫的希望

Their plans to set up their own business are just pie in the sky.

他们创办自己公司的计划只不过是空想罢了。

7. cakes and ale: 欢乐，物质享受，生活中的好东西（ale是一种酒）

Any reasonable person knows that life is not all cakes and ale.

任何理性的人都知道，生活不可能总是充满鲜花和美酒。

8. a piece (or slice) of the pie: 一份好处，一杯羹

When the business started making money, everyone in his family wanted a piece of the pie.

他的生意开始赚钱后，家里每个人都想分一杯羹。