Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
a última bolacha do pacote
English translation:
the best of the lot
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Oliver Simões
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Portuguese term
A última bolacha do pacote
Portuguese to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
O mais conservador considera o seu próprio código de conduta como a última e mais gostosa bolacha do pacote, não por egocentrismo, mas por honra ao patriotismo defendido por . . .
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Jun 8, 2018 12:11: Oliver Simões Created KOG entry
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the best of the lot
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Example sentence:
The team needed a top draft pick, and they got the best of the lot.
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The bee's knees
Sugestão.
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the last morsel [of credibility]
https://www.google.com/search?ei=OQWxWrnVIsa0jwOu75fADg&q="s...
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Note added at 1 hr (2018-03-20 13:05:11 GMT)
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as an idiomatic expression "the last key in the bunch"
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Note added at 1 hr (2018-03-20 13:05:11 GMT)
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as an idiomatic expression "the last key in the bunch"
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All that and a bag of chips
Sug. :)
Reference:
2 days 56 mins
top of the heap
Being top of the heap means being figuratively in a position superior to everyone else, as sang by Sinatra in his classical "New York, New York":
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Further references from periodicals (i.e. from non-musical usage):
"For some reason, Jerry has to be at the top of the heap."
"She fought her way to the top of the heap and means to stay there."
Link to this page:
<a href="https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/top of the heap"&g... of the heap</a>
References in periodicals archive
"Richard Franklin, RICS West Midlands spokesperson and commercial director at Persimmon Homes, said: "The survey illustrates a cooling in the market locally, where a number of factors are underlying the findings - with affordability at the top of the heap.
House price slow-down; PROPERTY: Interest rate fears hit market hard
He was standing in an obscure of agency, but after a good run on the New York stage and playing teen roles in several films, including Dazed and Confused, he was about as far from the top of the heap as an ICM client could get."
Rent gets real: as the pansexual, AIDS-inflected Broadway sensation becomes a gritty, hyperreal movie, three returning cast members talk about how the show's messages of love, life, and liberty for all have only become more urgent
"Far from it; 15 years of treading the boards and countless albums has left them where they are now, top of the heap and there's not many that can come close to producing such an atmosphere or generate such a feel good vibe like the band produced last night in Cardiff."
Green Day means great night
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Note added at 2 days 1 hr (2018-03-22 13:02:16 GMT)
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Further references from periodicals (i.e. from non-musical usage):
"For some reason, Jerry has to be at the top of the heap."
"She fought her way to the top of the heap and means to stay there."
Link to this page:
<a href="https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/top of the heap"&g... of the heap</a>
References in periodicals archive
"Richard Franklin, RICS West Midlands spokesperson and commercial director at Persimmon Homes, said: "The survey illustrates a cooling in the market locally, where a number of factors are underlying the findings - with affordability at the top of the heap.
House price slow-down; PROPERTY: Interest rate fears hit market hard
He was standing in an obscure of agency, but after a good run on the New York stage and playing teen roles in several films, including Dazed and Confused, he was about as far from the top of the heap as an ICM client could get."
Rent gets real: as the pansexual, AIDS-inflected Broadway sensation becomes a gritty, hyperreal movie, three returning cast members talk about how the show's messages of love, life, and liberty for all have only become more urgent
"Far from it; 15 years of treading the boards and countless albums has left them where they are now, top of the heap and there's not many that can come close to producing such an atmosphere or generate such a feel good vibe like the band produced last night in Cardiff."
Green Day means great night
Example sentence:
"There (in New York) I'll be king of the hill / top of the heap"
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