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cherries on top

cherries on top is the plural of cherry on top.

Meaning of cherry on top

Noun

cherry on top (plural cherries on top)

  1. (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”).
    • 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.1980, Garson Kanin, chapter XLIX, in Smash, New York, N.Y.: Viking Books, published October 1980, →ISBN, page 426

Questions about cherries on top

What is cherries on top the plural of?
Cherries on top is the plural of cherry on top.

Words near cherries on top in the dictionary

  1. cherried
  2. cherrier
  3. cherries
  4. cherries and berries
  5. cherries jubilee
  6. cherries on top
  7. cherriest
  8. Cherrington
  9. Cherringtons
  10. cherry
  11. cherry alder

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