frosting on the cake

1. see icing on the cake.

Example Sentences

“This burglary was just the frosting on the cake so to speak. ... It’ll take us years to recover that loss.”

From Los Angeles Times

The end credits with Hopalong Cassidy in a parade was the frosting on the cake.

From New York Times

So the social dimension is more than frosting on the cake.

From Salon

“And if it turns out that it’s really beneficial for quantum computing … that feels like frosting on the cake.”

From Science Magazine

“There’s a tendency for people to think that biodiversity is like frosting on the cake,” Franklin said, with “pretty birds and butterflies and pretty plants with nice flowers.”

From Seattle Times