- take the cake
- verbrank first; used often in a negative context-
He takes the cake for chutzpah!
• Hypernyms: ↑win• Verb Frames:-Something ——s
-Somebody ——s
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phrasal: to carry off the prize originally in a cakewalk : rank firsttakes the cake for sheer weight of national holidays — twenty-seven — New Yorker
for … pure cheek that takes the cake — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin
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take the cake (slang)1. To carry off the honours2. To be the ultimate in idiocy or intolerable behaviour (ironic)3. To top it all• • •Main Entry: ↑cake* * *
take the cake mainly american phraseto be the worst, most shocking, or most annoying example of something. The usual British expression is take the biscuitI’ve heard some ridiculous excuses before, but that takes the cake.
Thesaurus: to make someone feel shocked or surprisedsynonymMain entry: cake* * *
Isurpass or exceed all othersIIof all the hard-hearted women, she takes the cake
informal (of a person or incident) be the most remarkable or foolish of their kind* * *
take the cakechiefly US : to win the prize in a contest— used to describe something that is extremely surprising, foolish, annoying, etc.You've done some silly things, but this one really takes the cake! [=(Brit) takes the biscuit] [=this is the silliest thing you have ever done]
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take the ˈcake idiom(especially NAmE) (BrE also take the ˈbiscuit) (informal) to be the most surprising, annoying, etc. thing that has happened or that sb has done
Useful english dictionary. 2012.