take the cake (also take the biscuit British English) informal to be worse than anything else you can imagine 糟糕透顶 I’ve heard some pretty dumb ideas, but that takes the cake! 我听过一些相当愚蠢的主意,但这一个是最愚蠢的!
take the cake• You've done some pretty stupid things, but that really takes the cake!• But the collective foolishness of amending the Constitution wholesale really takes the cake.
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