“piece of”

The following 12 entries include the term piece of.

piece of cake

noun phrase

: something easily done : cinch, breeze

piece of eight

noun phrase

: an old Spanish peso of eight reales

piece of work

noun phrase

: a complicated, difficult, or eccentric person

piece of perspective

: a picture painted so as to appear distorted or confused except when viewed from a single viewpoint

piece of water

: lake, pond

a nasty piece of work

noun phrase

: an unkind or unpleasant person

a piece of cake

noun phrase

: something that is easy to do

a piece of junk

noun phrase

: something that is worthless or of poor quality

a piece of someone

idiom

: a share of someone's time

give (someone) a piece of one's mind

idiom

: to speak to someone in an angry way

how long is a piece of string

idiom

used as a reply to a question when the answer is not known

piece of the puzzle

noun phrase

: part of the solution to a question or problem


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