to top it all
UK US and Australian English to top it all offC2 If you have been describing bad things that happened, and then say that to top it all something else happened, you mean that the final thing was even worse:
The washing machine flooded, my car broke down, then to top it all I locked myself out of the house.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Worse and worst
- aggravating
- aggravation
- at worst idiom
- be in a different league idiom
- below/under par idiom
- can't hold a candle to idiom
- dark
- half
- hold
- match
- not in the same league idiom
- not the same idiom
- pale imitation
- pale in comparison idiom
- rub
- touch
- worse
- worse off
- worst
- worst-case
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