frosting on the cake
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Everything else is just frosting on the cake.
From MarketWatch
Garcetti said that while many celebrities lend money and faces to political causes, prettying up political mailers and email blasts, “Rob built those causes. He wasn’t like the frosting on the cake. He actually was the baker.”
From Los Angeles Times
“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
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