take the cake
US pronunciation
American soundtake the cake
takethecake
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take - the - cake -> take the cake
Myanmar meaning
[[IDM ](infml )] အလွန်၊ အထူး (ရယ်စရာ၊ စိတ်ရှုပ်စရာ၊ အံ့ဩစရာ စသည်) ဖြစ်သည်။
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၁။ (Brit ) (US cookie ) [C] ဘီစကွတ်။ chocolate biscuits ❍ cheese and biscuits.
၂။ [C] (US ) ဟင်းရည်ပျစ်နှင့်စားရသော ပေါင်မုန့်လိပ်တစ်မျိုး။
၃။ [U] အညိုဖျော့ရောင်။
၄။ [U] (techn ) မြေအိုး။
❏ take the biscuit; (also esp US ) take the cake [IDM ] (infml ) အလွန်၊ အထူး (ရယ်စရာ၊ စိတ်ရှုပ်စရာ၊ အံ့ဩစရာ စသည်) ဖြစ်သည်။ He's done stupid things before, but this really takes the biscuit (ie is the most stupid thing).
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appearance, aspect, baby biscuit, baked good, baked wafer, beige, bronze, brown, brownish, buff, bun, café au lait, cake, camel, candy, cast, confection, cookie, cracker, cream, crust, demeanor, disk, drab, ecru, expression, face, fawn, features, gills, gold, hard, hardtack, khaki, kisser, leather-colored, light brown, look, looks, map, mask, mien, mug, mushroom, natural, neutral, oatmeal, off-white, often salted, olive, olive-brown, phizog, physiognomy, poker face, potato, pretzel, puss, rusk, saddle, saltine, sand, suntan, tan, taupe, tawny, umber, visage, wafer, yellowish
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