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icing on the cake

Also, frosting on the cake. An additional benefit to something already good. For example, All these letters of congratulation are icing on the cake, or After that beautiful sunrise, the rainbow is just frosting on the cake. This metaphoric expression alludes to the sweet creamy coating used to enhance a cake. [Mid-1900s]

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“So anything else we get on top of it is just icing on the cake,” Bidart said.

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“Libraries are not icing on the cake. They’re not the cherry on top,” John Szabo, the city librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, told me.

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"To see the finished result on the big screen, and for it to win awards, has been the icing on the cake."

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Making everyone else pay after he dies is merely icing on the cake.

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Snow on Bourbon St. in New Orleans was merely icing on the cake.

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