So this is a CIDU-Oy.
And BillR, calling it “Almost a CIDU”, says “This took longer than it should’ve. But it came to me out of nowhere an hour after I saw it while I was driving to the grocery store.”
Well, maybe this?
… as pie? … as taking candy from a baby? … as WHAT?
Comics I Don't Understand 
Yes, he’s attempting a cakewalk, but the way he’s going about it isn’t a cakewalk.
Had the blues one time so bad it put my face in a permanent frown. Feeling so much better now, I can cakewalk into town.
Walking a cake is no cakewalk! It’s hard to do!
I think the comic might have been even more interesting if there had been just one slice of cake on the leash. ;-)
Mitch (2) Huh; I was singing that at work yesterday. Caught me a little off guard.
I think the comic might be a bit of a geezer reference. I never hear the term these days.
I don’t know that “cakewalk” has always meant something easy. It was a kind of contest dance, difficult enough that champion cakewalkers were well known. The prize at a cakewalk was a cake. That’s the origin of the phrase “that takes the cake.” The most famous cakewalker of all was Joseph “Doc” Brown. It’s said that after he won a contest or ended a performance he would cakewalk all the way home. So he made the cakewalk into a triumphal strut. Easy for him, of course. So if he said that something was a cakewalk he would have meant that he could do it easily.
I’ve heard this expression many times (…and I am a geezer), but I’ve never really understood it. What is a cakewalk, exactly? And why is it easy? I’ve always wondered.
I could ask ChatGPT, but I figure someone here will probably know.
Well it certainly does not seem to be a cakewalk.!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakewalk
Cake walk is mentioned in “Mame” in one of the songs – “You brought the cake walk back into style – Mame.”
I had always heard it used in context of something being easy “It’s a cake walk” (similar to “easy as cake” I guess somehow related.
@ Stan (7) – Meryl’s link to the Wikipedia article on “cakewalk” is very informative. There’s also an excellent article at NPR: “Why a ‘Cakewalk’ wasn’t always easy”.
I am familiar with and have used the term (as well as “piece of cake“, see @4), but I did not realize how old “cakewalk” is (not to mention racially charged, see this article at Snopes). Before I looked it up, I would have associated it with the vaudeville and/or silent film era; I have a vague memory of seeing one performed in one of the “Little Rascals” cartoons, but I cannot confirm that anywhere online.
P.S. Re: “ChatGPT“: