Icing on the cake

This phrase means when something good is added to another good thing that you already have. It makes good thing even better but is not essential

Occasionally, icing on the cake is used in a negative way, meaning something added to a situation that is not essential but makes a bad situation even worse.

Let me tell you a story, there was a lady called Rose, she was a student of Adekunle Ajasin University. She focused on her studies and have a side job( fashion designing). She didn’t allow this job to affect her primary purpose of being in school.

After her final exams, she came out with first class and she was retained has lecturer in her department. Few months later, she got a multimillion contract from a fashion company. This sound great right? If yes, what do you think is the icing and what is the cake?

Let me help you out the cake is her primary assignment of being in school which is to obtain degree in which she did and came out in flying colors while the icing is the side job she did which later fetch her more money

Icing on the cake have a positive and negative aspect, in our story today we talked about the positive aspect, some other time we will talk about the negative aspect