as in breeze
something easily done or dealt with
everyone thinks tonight's game will be a cream puff, and so it hasn't generated a lot of interest
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Recent Examples of cream puff
The offerings are all housemade: croissants, cookies, muffins, tarts, jams, cream puffs, pound cakes, cheesecakes, bread loafs.
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Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2024
According to Evers' proclamation, it's estimated that 50 to 60 cream puffs are purchased each minute at the fair, bringing the total to 400,000 cream puffs consumed each year.
—Hope Karnopp, Journal Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2024
Pastries include classic eclair, cinnamon rolls, key lime cream puffs, and fruit tart.
—Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2024
Éclair and Artistic Gymnastics Similar to cream puffs, éclairs are based on choux pastry.
—Cece Pascual, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cream puff
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And that means not saving challenges for the ninth inning when those palm trees are swaying in the March breeze.—
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There are no direct flights from New York to Anguilla (from Miami, yes) but the trip was a breeze.—
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In her last pic, Olivia Rodrigo holds the same picnic basket while cheesing for the camera in a plunging red one-piece bathing suit and a grey baseball cap, keeping her pigtail braids in tact underneath.—
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The gourmand’s haven will even curate an entire picnic basket with sandwiches, sides, and desserts (with 24-hour notice).—
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For Marx, making the transition from actress to wife of a great movie star was duck soup.—
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By comparison, Adare's most recent renovation— completed this spring after two years of construction—was duck soup.—
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Securing a multi-year deal with that race winner is the icing on the cake.—
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Mikey Moore put the icing on the Tottenham cake in stoppage time.—
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At 21, Jovic, too, arguably remains part of the kid stuff, only at the end of last season having emerged as a rotation presence.—
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But that was kid stuff compared to the adult heartbreak of her stunning new album, The Tortured Poets Department.—
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My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.—
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The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?—
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“Cream puff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cream%20puff. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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