icing on the cake

1. 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]

Example Sentences

They’ve been antagonistic, and it felt like a beautiful moment of female friendship and blossoming and this incredible Gaga song was just like the icing on the cake.

From Los Angeles Times

A turtle drifting into the scene was the "icing on the cake", according to Mr Szabo.

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times

“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.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From BBC

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