Meaning

1 senses

  1. (idiomatic)Synonym of icing on the cake (“a thing which intensifies the appreciation of something already good, or (ironic) the regretting of something already bad”).

Examples

2 sentences

  1. The cake I ate had cherries on top.

    deDer Kuchen, den ich aß, hatte Kirschen darauf. — mervert1

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  2. The cake she ate didn't have cherries on top.

    deDer Kuchen, den sie aß, hatte keine Kirschen darauf. — mervert1

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Origin

An allusion to a cake being decorated on top with one or more cherries.

An allusion to a cake being decorated on top with one or more cherries.

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Forms

plural: cherries on top
Singularcherry on top
Pluralcherries on top

irregular · Lesson

Synonyms

3 synonyms
cherry on the cakefrosting on the cakeicing on the cake

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cherishB1cherryB2cherubchessA2chessboardchestA2
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