coser

The everyday verb for sewing, by hand or machine, and the base of the fixed expression "ser coser y cantar" (to be a piece of cake, extremely easy).

• Mi abuela me enseñó a coser cuando era niña. — My grandmother taught me to sew when I was a child.
• Tengo que coser este botón antes de salir. — I have to sew on this button before I leave.
• Arreglar ese problema fue coser y cantar. — Fixing that problem was a piece of cake.

Don't confuse coser (to sew) with cocer (to cook/boil) — they sound almost identical in much of Latin America (seseo) but are spelled differently and mean completely different things.

Often confused with cocer.

• expression coser y cantar — Common idiom meaning something is extremely easy ("a piece of cake"), traditionally traced to women sewing together in groups while singing to pass the time, or to the old saying "coser y cantar, todo es empezar."