| 单词 | the frosting on the cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe frosting on the cake b. North American. the frosting on the cake: an additional benefit to something that is already good; = the icing on the cake at icing n. Phrases. ΚΠ 1905 Cold Storage & Ice Trade Jrnl. Apr. 45/2 You can make the fair sex perfectly happy by mixing a bowl full of it [sc. ice] with pink syrup and a lemon. It's the frosting on the cake of commerce. 1916 McClure's Mag. Dec. 26/2 It is foolishness that makes the world go round... Foolishness is the frosting on the cake,..the soupçon of rouge on the pale cheek of every-day life, that makes the same old life worth living. 1990 Amer. Rifleman Feb. 88/2 To..put the proverbial ‘frosting on the cake’, I finally got my first deer with a muzzleloader on the day after Christmas. 2000 Locus Aug. 29/3 The frosting on the cake here is the author's ability to invest the characters with a real familiarity. < as lemmas |
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