taking the cake
Example Sentences
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Pools are great and all, but these days, many other home features from bar rooms to flex spaces are taking the cake as the most in-demand essentials for home buyers.
From Fox News ● Mar. 3, 2022
Eventually, the "Cheaper by the Dozen" star, 76, caught wind of his doppelgänger taking the cake on the famed quiz show, and left a goofy reply.
From Fox News ● Dec. 20, 2021
The release says Root filmed Messer taking the cake valued at $25-$30.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 9, 2017
If my reasons for taking the cake of soap from Ashton's room seemed weak, I could only inform the magistrate that they were nevertheless the ones which had actuated me.
From The Green God by Frederic Arnold Kummer
Any ordinary man would have been afraid to accept the morsel so roughly offered; but Chôbei simply opened his mouth, and taking the cake off the sword's point ate it without wincing.
From Tales of Old Japan by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale
