the icing on the cake
the frosting on the cake

But the icing on the cake was that I knew him!

Of course that was just the icing on the cake.

That is as it were the icing on the cake.

Items such as these are the icing on the cake.

That will be the icing on the cake, so to speak.

"So I think this was the icing on the cake."

"Being the biggest would just be the icing on the cake."

There's a reason why the best part of something is called "the icing on the cake."

Working and living in Britain was the icing on the cake.

But being rid of you is only the icing on the cake.

If I could make money at it, too, that's the icing on the cake.

"I like to think of it as the icing on the cake for me," she added.

The deal he'd worked out about Hunter was just the icing on the cake.

To do so again would be the icing on the cake at the end of a long legislative process.

She would be the icing on the cake to his triumph tonight.

And the icing on the cake was that the public had been invited.

The talent in the kitchen is the icing on the cake.

They had come close in past seasons, but this was the icing on the cake.

The Enron event is really just the icing on the cake.

The last could be the icing on the cake couldn't it?

"Toby's money is what I call the icing on the cake."

The icing on the cake, or 20 percent, comes from selling horses.

"That was just the icing on the cake," he said through his teeth.

"That put the icing on the cake for me," he says.

"This is the best feeling right now, the icing on the cake.

The experience is, so to speak, the frosting on the cake.

So were the napkins, the plates and the frosting on the cake.

The frosting on the cake has melted into the hash.

Hatred is both the cake and the frosting on the cake.

I thought we held one of the big keys to enlightenment, but it was really just the frosting on the cake."

"but UConn football would be the frosting on the cake."

The frosting on the cake was sweet, but the stuff underneath was bitter.

Seamless service was the frosting on the cake.

Calling it the frosting on the cake just won't cut it at Penn.

The frosting on the cake, so to speak, were small silver replicas of the artwork produced as party favors for the guests.

The mystery is the frosting on the cake--not essential but delightful."

Barry, seeing his chance, stuck his finger into the frosting on the cake and ate it as fast as he could.

She is the frosting on the cake, the cherry on the sundae, the last word in whatever message a designer is trying to deliver.

"I wanted to be known as an actress, not necessarily a star, although that would be the frosting on the cake if it should ever come about."

"A special event is a wonderful tool in a fund-raising kit," said Ms. Clemow, "but it really is the frosting on the cake."

"We look at the refunding activity as simply the frosting on the cake that makes a good year even more spectacular," David H. Elliott, the president of MBIA, said.

And, she supposed, the fact that Haven had tried her in absentia (legal under what passed for Havenite law when Manticore refused to extradite her), found her guilty, and condemned her to death, had been the frosting on the cake.