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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The icing on the cake, as an idiomatic expression describing the clincher, the ultimate selling point, the best part of all, is fairly recent in origin, according to the n-grams. It doesn’t seem to go back more than a few decades. Calling it a “cherry on the cake” is more recent yet. The latter might be a blend with “with a cherry on top”, as in “Pretty pretty please with a cherry on top.” We’ve often noted that recent phrases may be particularly prone to be reimagined, so that the acorn and its eggcorn are of similar vintage. I came across the sherry on the cake while perusing an online review. The sherry on the cake would be the ingredient that gives it its special flavour.
She is smiley, she gives a lot of advices and the sherry on the cake she will take the time to know you
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The sherry on the cake is the magnificent view on the Mediterranean Sea.
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Highly professional , very caring and dedicated to her clients and the sherry on the cake a great personality !!!
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You’ve done that very effectively here, with a daring composition and great perspective and POV.
the well-placed girl is the sherry on the cake.
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Most of the several hundred of these come from India for some reason – don’t they have cherries there? Perhaps the approval of crowds could be described as clappy and cheery? Or maybe, as I’d prefer, that sherry is in the cake as well as on it.
The cheery on the cake however is the last competition called ‘laadoo oonth’, it tests the strength of the camel to see how much weight the camel can carry, man ...
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The cheery on the cake is that this Knock-out Punch Self-Defence spray comes with a free Pee Safe Toilet Seat Sanitizer; it is a toilet seat sanitizer that will keep you germ-free even when travelling and using public toilets. Isn’t that a great deal?
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