cake walk vs gift

cake walk

noun
  • A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century. 

  • From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number wins a cake. 

  • Something extremely easy. 

gift

verb
  • To give as a gift or donation. 

  • To give away, to concede easily. 

noun
  • Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. 

  • A talent or natural ability. 

  • Something gained incidentally, without effort. 

  • The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing. 

How often have the words cake walk and gift occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )