| 单词 | the icing on the cake |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe icing on the cake Originally U.S. the icing on the cake and variants: an additional benefit to something that is already good; (also) an attractive but inessential enhancement. Now also ironic. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [noun] > ornamentation or decoration > an ornament > trimmings all the trimmings1927 the icing on the cake1969 1896 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 7 Apr. 5/3 The afternoon session was the climax, the ‘icing’ on the cake. 1918 Ogden (Utah) Standard 4 Mar. 5/1 To a man love is merely the icing on the cake of life, but to a woman love is the bread of life, and she starves and perishes without it. 1950 Billboard 4 Feb. 54/3 Some fine moppet actors have already been on view this season, but it takes 12-year-old Johnny Stewart..to put the icing on the juvenile performance cake. 1969 Listener 3 Apr. 468/3 All this theology is icing on the cake... ‘Pas sérieuse’..is an epithet I would apply to the whole book. 1970 ‘T. Coe’ Jade in Aries (1973) iii. 30 If I went to Manzoni's captain, it would just put the icing on the cake. Cornell would really be in the soup. 1998 K. Lette Altar Ego xxxiii. 287 But the icing on the angst pie was yet to come. 2003 A. Notaro Back after Break xix. 174 They were invited for a drink with the crew after the show, which was the icing on the cake as far as they were concerned: a chance to really mingle with the rich and famous. < as lemmas |
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