take the cake

/tˈeɪk ðə kˈeɪk/

to take the cake

to be the most surprising, outrageous, or absurd

Examples

1. All of the reviews were bad, but hers took the cake.

2. Oh, that takes the cake!

3. Both suck, but for me, this takes the cake.

4. And of the 1,250 different species of sea cucumber in the world, the Japanese sea cucumber takes the cake.