to cap it off
phrase
—used to indicate a final thing that happened that was even better, worse, etc., than what happened before
The car was filthy when he returned it to me, and to cap it off, there was almost no fuel left in the tank.
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“To cap it off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20cap%20it%20off. Accessed 7 Mar. 2026.
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