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.”

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

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

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

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“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.”

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