take the cake
21take the biscuit (or chiefly N. Amer. cake) — informal be the most remarkable or foolish of its kind. → biscuit …
22takes the cake — (something) takes the cake something is the most extreme example. I ve known some jerks but you take the cake. Usage notes: usually said about something bad …
23something takes the cake — (something) takes the cake something is the most extreme example. I ve known some jerks but you take the cake. Usage notes: usually said about something bad …
24Icing on the Cake — Infobox Television episode | Title = Icing on the Cake Series = Ugly Betty Season = 1 Episode = 17 Guests= Airdate = March 15, 2007 Production = 117 Writer = Dailyn Rodriguez Director = Jeff Melman Episode list = Episode chronology Caption =… …
25cake — ► NOUN 1) an item of soft sweet food made from baking a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, and sugar. 2) a flat, round item of savoury food that is baked or fried. 3) the amount of money available for sharing: a fair slice of the education cake. ► VERB …
26cake — [ keık ] noun *** 1. ) count or uncount a sweet food made by baking a mixture that usually contains sugar, eggs, flour, and butter or oil: a chocolate cake a birthday/wedding/Christmas cake a piece/slice of cake: Would you like a slice of cake?… …
27cake-walk — [ kɛkwɔk ] n. m. • 1895; mot angl. amér. « marche du gâteau » ♦ Danse négro américaine, en vogue vers 1900. Des cake walks. La musique sur laquelle le cake walk se dansait. ● cake walk, cake walks nom masculin (américain cake walk, de to take the …
28cake — [kāk] n. [ME < ON kaka < IE base * gag , *gog , something round, lump of something (orig. < baby talk) > Ger kuchen: not connected with COOK & L coquere] 1. a small, flat mass of dough or batter, or of some hashed food, that is baked… …
29cake-walks — ● cake walk, cake walks nom masculin (américain cake walk, de to take the cake, décrocher la timbale, et walk, marche) Danse syncopée d origine noire américaine, à deux temps, qui connut une grande vogue en Europe vers 1900 …
30cake — [[t]ke͟ɪk[/t]] ♦♦♦ cakes, caking, caked 1) N VAR A cake is a sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, and fat in an oven. Cakes may be large and cut into slices or small and intended for one person only. ...a piece of cake...… …
