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on the top of
(b) Also with the in on the top of: so as to add to; in addition to (esp. with reference to unwelcome tasks, events, misfortunes, etc., added to an existing burden).
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1796 F. Burney Camilla II. iii. iii. 62 One thing heaped o'top of t'other.
1824 M. Wilmot Let. 5 Feb. (1935) 207 I came home hungry, took some hot tea on the top of a cold ice which I got there, got an indigestion.
1886 St. Stephen's Rev. 13 Mar. 11/2 Two heavy falls in a week, and a bad cold on the top of them.
1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 33/2 I will help get him work and do anything I can for him..but I cannot give him money on top of the million he has thrown away.
1968 Listener 4 July 5/1 On top of all this there are the continuing constitutional negotiations.
1981 Sunday Express Mag. 2 Aug. /33 Lord Mackan has had a busy programme of special ceremonial events on top of his normal Household chores.
2000 R. Doyle in N. Hornby Speaking with Angel 163 So, I suppose, on top of everything else, my tiredness, the rows with the eldest—I suppose I'm just getting old, really.
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