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Idioms and Phrases
In a dominant or successful position. It is also put as come out on top , as in As we expected, Paul again came out on top in the chess tournament . [Mid-1500s] Also see on top of .Example Sentences
Last September Givan's new scheme to help with the cost of childcare provided a 15% subsidy on top of the 20% granted by the government to children under primary school age.
The left-field bequest — as if tending to Walter’s legacy with an overdue book of his correspondence wasn’t enough — is, to Iris, a mystery on top of a conundrum.
“We know that people are really struggling out there with the high cost of food, gas, household goods, and on top of that, lots of people spend more than half their income on rent,†she said.
Now, if you add 34% on top of that, it is probably pricing most of them out.
On top of that, on Thursday, 25% tariffs on automobiles coming into the US will come into effect.
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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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