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Implies that a promised reward for one's work is false, with the one proffering the reward never intending to give it in the first place, possibly because the reward never even existed (see also: "there is no spoon"). This phrase can be used to express grief or frustration regarding any situation where there is an imbalance between effort and reward. This phrase was popularized by the game "Portal" by Valve Software Corporation.
During the game, GlaDOS, an artificially intelligent operating system and the game's passive-aggressive guide, uses the reward of cake as a motivating factor in an attempt to manipulate the player. It is first mentioned during the "impossible puzzle room", where she urges the player to "quit now and cake will be served immediately". In a later stage, the player can access a "hidden" area of the testing chamber to find a previous test participant had scrawled "The cake is a lie!" among other warning messages. Cake continues to remain the promised reward for completing the test and/or obeying GlaDOS, particularly in the final stages of the game. Finally, in the ending song, GlaDOS cheerfully sings about how "there's no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying 'till you run out of cake."
In the game, cake serves as a carefully calculated motivational device, but there are suggestions that it also serves as an essence of humanity--the ability to eat cake, taste it, and experience emotional pleasure from it--which a computer cannot experience even with artificial intelligence. In this less commonly-used sense, the phrase "the cake is a lie" can also imply that one's emotions or the basis of one's emotions are false, with cake representing emotion, emotional basis, or emotional capability.
Common Usage Example --
Bob: "We worked hard this quarter, where's the raises you promised?"
George: "Sorry, Bob, the company is making some cut-backs; no raises this year."
Bob: "So the cake is a lie. Why did we have to work so hard, then?"
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A woman 26 years+ who is considered to be past her prime, undesirable, used goods and/or no good.
The term originates from Japan where it is tradition to eat cake on Christmas. So a cake intended for Christmas that was not eaten or is left over is considered bad and should be thrown out. Japanese businessmen coined the term, once again emphasizing the Japanese desire for a young and virginal wife. Japanese women over the age of 26 most often have to rely on either a hastily semi-arranged marriage to a friend of the family or, more frequently, marry a foreigner as they are rarely aware of the stigma or don't care.
"If we wait until after grad school, I'll be Christmas Cake."
"She just turned 26. She's Christmas Cake now."
"She married her husband at 30, so you know he wasn't bothered that she was Christmas Cake."
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The act of grabbing cake in one's hand without dropping it or getting frosting all over your hand or anyone else and then eating the cake. This only applies when one uses a single hand, not two. Usually only guys or men participate in this.
I was so hungry for some of that chocolate cake, but all of my plates and flatware were dirty, so I had to go cake grabbing.
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Fat Rick: Odelay holmes! The cake is in the oven!
Buho: Cake? What fuckin' cake?
Fat Rick: You know, the cake is in the oven!
Buho: Huh?
Fat Rick: Remember what Huesos told you! Well, the dope car was just dropped outside that shitty dive bar!
Buho: Hey bro, I thought we weren't supposed to actually say that!
Fat Rick bitch slaps Buho.
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Joey: Hey Jim, do you like crotch cake?
Jim: No, the thorns go all over my face every time I eat some.
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When someone possesses a cringey personality trait, or when someone says cringey things often.
Madi Bond is such a cringe cake when she told that story.
the second level to the highest of being intoxicated by weed and almost can not do anything but sit and watch tv
Dang man you are so caked you need to go home
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