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icing on the cake
Idioms and Phrases
Also, frosting on the cake . An additional benefit to something already good. For example, All these letters of congratulation are icing on the cake , or After that beautiful sunrise, the rainbow is just frosting on the cake . This metaphoric expression alludes to the sweet creamy coating used to enhance a cake. [Mid-1900s]Example Sentences
"To see the finished result on the big screen, and for it to win awards, has been the icing on the cake."
Making everyone else pay after he dies is merely icing on the cake.
Snow on Bourbon St. in New Orleans was merely icing on the cake.
His other nominees are former Fox News employees, friends and family members – icing on the cake for the grifter-in-chief.
"What an inspiring win! We saw Wales play Ireland in Cardiff last week and it was a great atmosphere. Tonight was the icing on the cake. Bring on the euros!" she said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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