(one's) cake is dough
(one's) cake is dough
One's actions have failed or not led to the desired outcome—much like a cake that is still dough after baking. The phrase appears in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. I know you worked really hard on this project, but it looks like your cake is dough, and you won't be winning the contest.
See also: cake, dough
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- dough
- woe is me
- Woe is me!
- a plague on both your houses
- rose by any other name, a
- the gorge rises at it
- there(in) lies the rub
- therein
- that's the rub
- here's the rub