cherry on top

== English == === Etymology === An allusion to a cake being decorated on top with one or more cherries. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌt͡ʃɛɹi ɒn ˈtɒp/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌt͡ʃɛɹi ɑn ˈtɑp/ Rhymes: -ɒp Hyphenation: cher‧ry on top === Noun === cherry on top (plural cherries on top) (idiomatic) Synonym of icing on the cake (“a thing which intensifies the appreciation of something already good, or (ironic) the regretting of something already bad”). Synonyms: cherry on the cake, frosting on the cake ==== Derived terms ==== pretty please with a cherry on top ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Cherry on Top (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “the (also a) cherry on (the) top” under “cherry, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2025. “the cherry on top”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. === Anagrams === necrotrophy