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one's cake is dough

one's cake is dough phrase: one's actions have failed to achieve any success or make any progress.

Phrase

one's cake is dough

  1. (idiomatic) One's actions have failed to achieve any success or make any progress.

Questions about one's cake is dough

What does one's cake is dough mean?
One's cake is dough means one's actions have failed to achieve any success or make any progress.
What part of speech is one's cake is dough?
One's cake is dough is a phrase.

Words near one's cake is dough in the dictionary

  1. one's bark is worse than one's bite
  2. one's belly thinks one's throat has been cut
  3. one's blood is up
  4. one's blood runs cold
  5. one's born days
  6. one's cake is dough
  7. one's cotton socks off
  8. one's damned if one does and one's damned if one doesn't
  9. one's damned if one does, and one's damned if one doesn't
  10. one's days are numbered
  11. one's door is open

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