Take the cake
Meaning: An extreme example of something good or bad or shocking.
Imagine, you are a teacher and 20 of your students took a test. Shockingly everybody scored less than 40%, but one student John scored just 5%.
Now you can say, “Everyone did bad in the test, but John takes the cake.”
(In this situation, we used Take the cake to talk about a bad example.)
Imagine you are an artist. You put 20 of your paintings for sale and all of them were sold. 19 of your paintings sold for less than $1000. But one particular painting was sold for $20,000.
Now someone can say, “All your painting were sold for good price, but this one takes the cake.“
(In this situation, we used Take the cake to talk about a good example.)
More examples:
- I have watched many bad movies but Sharknado takes the cake.
- John has done a lot of crazy things, but this really takes the cake.
- All her dresses are great but the red one really takes the cake.
- “Miss. Stephanie I cannot attend the class today I need to go to the wedding of my friend’s cat.”
- “Wow, I have heard many crazy excuses for missing a class, but this one takes the cake.“
