icing on the cake

1. 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

But Eze's achievement was just the icing on the cake for Arteta's side, because there were outstanding performances right through their team.

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"That truly would be the icing on the cake."

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“It’s icing on the cake to get an individual award, and be crowned MVP. But I just really want to appreciate the support from all my teammates, everyone around me, my supporting staff.”

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The icing on the cake of this security debacle is, of course, if Iranian hackers in fact breached these communications.

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They’ve been antagonistic, and it felt like a beautiful moment of female friendship and blossoming and this incredible Gaga song was just like the icing on the cake.

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