past took the cake, past participle taken the cake) (idiomatic, colloquial, chiefly US) Used as an affirmation or accolade when one is deemed the top position...
165: So in the middle of the night, when all were asleep, she took the cloth from the lad, and put another one in its stead, just like the one he had...
and cake-walk English Wikipedia has an article on: cake walk Wikipedia cake-walk cake walk (plural cake walks) A type of dance originating in the United...
take the biscuit (third-person singular simple present takes the biscuit, present participle taking the biscuit, simple past took the biscuit, past participle...
take the front seat (third-person singular simple present takes the front seat, present participle taking the front seat, simple past took the front seat...
simple past took it, past participle taken it) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, it. To start doing. I began the project; now...
Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 37: For a time modern architects took a starkly functional approach to the design of houses, emphasizing clean, uncluttered lines...
Bradshaw, “Mr Malcolm’s List review – Regency romcom served with cake-icing of irony”, in The Guardian[1]: Meanwhile handsome ex-cavalryman Captain Henry...
fiction, I had heard a hell of a lot of gauche questions, butthat really took the cake. 1996 September 20, Lee Billings, “Genderless nouns (was Re: English...