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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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
Noun
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Usually, the salty breeze brought with it the sounds of baby elephant seals calling to their moms in high pitched yells.—
Gabrielle Emanuel,
NPR,
7 Feb. 2025
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Reigning world champion Thierry Neuville hit a patch of ice going into one hairpin and ripped the suspension off his car, limping back to the service park with a wheel dangling in the breeze.—
Raphael Orlove,
Robb Report,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Set up a candlelight picnic or a cook a romantic dinner at home Use brown paper or compostable wrapping paper for your gifts.—
Martha Shade,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2025
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Features of the plan include developing a new campground, converting an existing campground into day-use picnic sites, constructing up to 12 cabins, creating new access points to the lake, improving the boat dock and constructing a new day lodge.—
John Meyer,
The Denver Post,
8 Feb. 2025
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For Marx, making the transition from actress to wife of a great movie star was duck soup.—
Donald Liebenson,
Washington Post,
21 July 2022
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By comparison, Adare's most recent renovation— completed this spring after two years of construction—was duck soup.—
Jo Rodgers,
Vogue,
4 Apr. 2018
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In January 2024, ahead of his 3rd birthday, Trainor told PEOPLE that her son had asked for a very specific cake that was inspired by something in their house.—
Hannah Sacks,
People.com,
10 Feb. 2025
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Tell victim moving wall was a joke, offer to get him piece of chocolate cake, glass of milk.—
Jack Handey,
The New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2025
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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.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Sep. 2024
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But that was kid stuff compared to the adult heartbreak of her stunning new album, The Tortured Poets Department.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
19 Apr. 2024
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My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.—
Cheri Lucas Rowlands,
Longreads,
16 Dec. 2024
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The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
10 Feb. 2024
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“Cream puff.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cream%20puff. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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