to take the cake
01
to be the most surprising, outrageous, or absurd
Dialect
American
American
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Idiom
Informal
Exempel
Of all the costumes at the costume party, his homemade robot costume takes the cake for creativity.
to be the most surprising, outrageous, or absurd
AmericanIdiomInformal
