English in a Minute: Icing on the Cake 

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Icing is a sweet, creamy mixture used to cover cakes. But how do we use icing as an idiom?
Icing on the Cake
A: Jonathan, how was the Maná concert last night?
J: Amazing! They played all my favorite songs. But the icing on the cake was getting to meet the band after the show!
A: Wow, that is icing on the cake.
J: The lead singer even gave me the headband he wore on stage!
Icing on the cake describes something that makes a good situation even better. Cake is good by itself, but it tastes so much better with icing. Usually.
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