American Idioms and Expressions

Cake's Not Worth The Candle Idiom

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Cake's not worth the candle
What does Cake's not worth the candle mean?		 If someone says that the cake's not worth the candle, they mean that the result will not be worth the effort put in to achieve it.

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have nothing on (someone or something)
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What does "earful" mean?		 a scolding, much talking in the form of complaintsThe man gave his daughter an earful when she came home late.
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