crown it all
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]crown it all (third-person singular simple present crowns it all, present participle crowning it all, simple past and past participle crowned it all)
- (British) To be the final, or last-mentioned, event or occurrence in a series of particularly favourable / fortunate or unfavourable / unfortunate events.
- Synonyms: cap it all, top it off
- 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611:
- A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
References
[edit]- “to crown it all”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “crown it all”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “to crown it all” (US) / “to crown it all” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.