the icing on the cake

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   something extra and not essential that is added to an already good situation or experience and that makes it even better

   Icing on the cake. Check it out.

In the movies · 1

• Icing on the cake. Check it out.This Is the End2013
• ...it's time to put the icing on the cake.Not Another Teen Movie2001
• Coming to America was such a dream, it was the icing on the cake.A Single Man2009
• I never liked that gentleman, but I must say this is the icing on the cake.The Sisters Brothers2018

Learn it in full scenes

• This Is the End2013
  • Seth Picks Jay Up at LAX
  • Seth Talks Jay Into the Party
  • Franco Gives the House Tour

From the same entry

• break the ice
• cut no ice
• on ice
• be skating on thin ice
• ice over

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• up to a point
• wet behind the ears
• what's up with that
• you could hear a pin drop
• at any rate
• it's not as if
• behind bars
• tear apart
• see the light
• set foot in