Coffee is also very common, not only for breakfast, but also accompanying a piece of cake in the afternoon, usually on Sundays or special occasions and birthdays.

The person being honored will be given the first piece of cake.

Thus cutting a cake, where taking a larger piece reduces the amount of cake available for others, is a zero – sum game if all participants value each unit of cake equally ( see marginal utility ).

Commonly, the couple ceremonially cut the first piece of the cake, and in a nod to an ancient Roman wedding rite, may feed a bite to one another and perhaps sip a glass of wine or other drink with linked arms.

When presenting her Christmas cake recipe she once justified the cost of ingredients, saying " But on the other hand, we do want one piece of decent cake in the year.

Similarly, one cannot charge for a piece of cake and for the eating of the piece of cake.

Inside each cake, however, was inserted a piece of paper with the message: " Kill the Mongols on the 15th day of the 8th month " ( traditional Chinese: 八月十五殺韃子 ; simplified Chinese: 八月十五杀鞑子 ).

First, one takes a small piece of the cow dung cake and place it at the bottom of the pyramid pot.

As a customer removed a compartment ’ s contents, a behind-the-machine human quickly slipped another sandwich, salad, piece of pie or coffee cake into the vacated chamber.

The cake has a small trinket ( often a small plastic baby, said to represent Baby Jesus ) inside ( or sometimes placed underneath ), and the person who gets the piece of cake with the trinket has various privileges and obligations.

Nowadays in Mexico, people who find the figurines in their piece of the cake usually agree to host a party on February 2 and to provide the guests with tamales and atole.

A paper crown is included with the cake to crown the " king " who finds the fève in their piece of cake.

A chef at Chicago's Palmer House Hotel created the confection after Bertha Palmer requested a dessert for ladies attending the fair ; it should be, she said, smaller than a piece of cake, though still retaining cake-like characteristics and easily eaten from boxed lunches.

* Makkie — easy job, piece of cake

For instance if a procedure says the first player cuts the cake in two equal parts then the second player chooses a piece, then the first player cannot claim that the second player got more.

For " Kate ate a piece of cake ", the possibilities are:

" ( same word order as English ) ate a piece of cake.

He was one of the last artists to use metalpoint ( literally a sharp pointed piece of sliver or another metal ) extensively, although he also made superb use of the freer medium of red or black chalk.

The King is but a piece over the political scene ( in French literally translated: on the chessboard ), but a piece which matters.

By scanning the enormous content of the Internet, some computers " know " literally every single piece of public information ( every scientific discovery, every book and movie, every public statement, etc.

The origin of the name oud ( and its etymological cousin, lute ) for the musical instrument is uncertain, but the Arabic العود ( al-ʿūd ) refers literally to a thin piece of wood similar to the shape of a straw, and may refer to the wooden plectrum traditionally used for playing the oud, to the thin strips of wood used for the back, or to the wooden soundboard that distinguished it from similar instruments with skin-faced bodies.

Rather, soft-hammer flakes are most often produced by what is referred to as a bending fracture, so-called because the flake is quite literally bent or " peeled " from the objective piece.

* The traditional Finnish rakovalkea ( literally " slit bonfire ") is constructed by placing one long piece of fuelwood atop another, parallel, and bolstering them in place with four sturdy posts driven into the ground.

In Spies, Snafu leaks classified information a little at a time until the Axis enemies piece it together, ambush his transport ship, and literally blow him to hell.

A candidate was tracked down in Georgia who weighed over 150 kg ( 330 pounds ) and was given the pet name Şeker Pâre ( literally, " sugarbit " or " piece of sugar ").

A soudarion is literally a sweat rag ; more specifically it was a piece of cloth used to wipe away sweat, but in the context of dead bodies, most scholars believe it was used to keep the jaw closed.

Colloquial alternatives for the currency unit include the Mandarin kuài ( 塊 ), meaning " piece ", and the Taiwanese Minnan kho ͘ ( 箍 ; literally " circle ").

A caul (, literally, " helmeted head ") is a piece of membrane, that can cover a newborn's head and face immediately after birth.

* Cutups ( or cut ups, a term originally coined by William S. Burroughs to describe some of his literary experiments that involved literally " cutting up " different texts and rearranging the pieces to create a new piece.

In Vietnamese, pork rind is called tóp mỡ, literally means " dried piece of fat ".

In another analogy, Bohm asks us to consider a pattern produced by making small cuts in a folded piece of paper and then, literally, unfolding it.

Evil does not sleep " and " Licho wie ", literally " Licho knows ", but used to mean that a given piece of information is known by no one.

In Russia, the dish is called отбивная ( Ot-biv-na-ya ), which literally means a piece of meat that has been beaten.

The car was literally a hatchback, with the rear hatch formed out of a single piece of glass as seen previously on the Hillman Imp.

It's an enigmatic and gripping piece about two women whose purpose and identity remains suspended metaphorically-and indeed literally, performed by young French rope and aerial specialists, Clementine Lamouret and Elsa Caillat.

The napkin / cloth in Greek is a soudarium, from the Latin sudarium, literally a " sweat rag ", a piece of cloth used to wipe the sweat from one's brow.

For this piece, Antin literally placed 100 boots in different Southern California settings and had the boots photographed in each scene.

The city was literally deconstructed piece by piece.

< nowiki > A musical instrument literally means a tool or piece of equipment which when played rhythmically produces musical tones.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

*** The swell of the muzzle refers to the slight swell in the diameter of the piece at the very end of the chase.

The word gnutella today refers not to any one project or piece of software, but to the open protocol used by the various clients.

In FidoNet terminology, the term " kludge " refers to a piece of control data embedded inside a message.

In most armed forces the term " gun " is incorrect when referring to small arms ; in military parlance, the word " gun " refers to an artillery piece or crew-served machine gun.

In philately, an error refers to a postage stamp or piece of postal stationery that exhibits a printing or production mistake that differentiates it from a normal specimen or from the intended result.

In commercial terms ( such as " the telecom optical switch market size ") it refers to any piece of circuit switching equipment between fibers.

The rule of thumb to distinguish the two phenomena is as follows: when an expression refers to another linguistic expression or a piece of discourse, it is discourse deictic.

" To pin " refers to the action of the attacking piece inducing the pin, and the defending piece so restricted is described as pinned.

Cloth may be used synonymously with fabric but often refers to a finished piece of fabric used for a specific purpose ( e. g., table cloth ).

The Magician's Nephew refers to these books in the opening of the novel as though their events were true, mentioning the setting of the piece as being when " Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road ".

In the context of sewing, an appliqué refers to a needlework technique in which pieces of fabric, embroidery, or other materials are sewn onto another piece of fabric to create designs, patterns or pictures.

This refers to the fact that the piece is in different tonal sections, each beginning and ending in their own respective keys.

In the United States, debenture refers specifically to an unsecured corporate bond, i. e. a bond that does not have a certain line of income or piece of property or equipment to guarantee repayment of principal upon the bond's maturity.

In Albania, the hookah is called " lula " or " lulava " in Romani, meaning " pipe "; the word " té qifsha robt " refers to the actual bottle piece.

On 8 March 2001, Serbian newsmagazine Vreme published an op-ed piece titled ' Hvala lepo ' by Serbian playwright Biljana Srbljanović in which she refers in passing to Undeground as " being financed by Milošević " and accuses Kusturica of being " an immoral profiteer ".

In season 2, episode 7 of the NBC series Chuck titled " Chuck Versus The Fat Lady ", Chuck's college girlfriend Jill refers to another character's paranoia and strange literary references when she notes, " The logon for his computer was a randomly selected word from a piece of Vogon poetry.

In the first issue of The New Yorker ( February 21, 1925 ), a humor piece on the history of New York refers to John F. Hylan as " Jonef Hylan ":

Being " run out " refers to the situation where the distance from the climber's position to the last piece of gear is far enough that the climber will receive little, if any, protection from a fall.

So a piece of furniture described as being " by Sheraton " refers to the design and not to the maker of the piece.

Task Identity-this dimension refers to the completion of a whole and identifiable piece of work versus a partial task as part of a larger piece of work