Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
a última bolacha do pacote
English translation:
the best of the lot
Portuguese term
A última bolacha do pacote
Jun 8, 2018 12:11: Oliver Simões Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
United States
BA in Transl., MA in ESL, 15 yrs of exp.
Native in: Portuguese 
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Spanish to Portuguese, and 2 more.
the best of the lot
The team needed a top draft pick, and they got the best of the lot.
United States
25 + yrs. Business experience PORT- ENG
Native in: Portuguese 
, English
Works in: Portuguese to English, English to Portuguese
Portugal
A classicist's take on modern languages
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Latin to Portuguese, and 3 more.
The bee's knees
| agree |
Raquel Holzmann (X)
30 mins
|
| agree |
Luciano Eduardo de Oliveira
32 mins
|
| agree |
Alda Lima
41 mins
|
| agree |
Nick Taylor
: I like it!
2 hrs
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| agree |
Paulinho Fonseca
: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:bee's_knees
1 day 23 hrs
|
United States
Business, Legal & Financial Translation
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Portuguese to English
the last morsel [of credibility]
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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"
United Kingdom
Marketing, Business, Lit. & Localization
Native in: Portuguese
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Spanish to Portuguese, and 1 more.
All that and a bag of chips
Brazil
Jobs done the best way: Personal Care.
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English
top of the heap
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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
"There (in New York) I'll be king of the hill / top of the heap"
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