Meaning of cherry on top | Babel Free

Definitions

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

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“To me—the doing is what counts. Success—fame or fortune—sure, those are the cherries on top. Try⟳ to find⟳ the joy in the doing.”

“The memories are the cherries on top.”

“Everything is possible, [Gareth] Southgate had said on Sunday, as he sought to consign the dismal [UEFA] Nations League campaign to unwanted history. This was a display to fire optimism. There was even the cherry on top of a late sixth for Jack Grealish, who had entered as a substitute, from a pull-back from another replacement, Callum Wilson.”

“But at least investment was on the agenda. Now the state of the industry can be described as blancmange, an incoherent muddle without even a cherry on top. And that has not gone unnoticed.”

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