Cherry : noun La cerise is the fruit of the cherry tree. Small drupes round, smooth, most often red or black, sometimes yellow.
The time of cherries: the time of the good days gone by.
(For) a handful of cherries: in terms of value: nothing at all or very little.
For cherry stems: for not much, nothing, in vain.
Carry / file / give someone the cherry to bring him bad luck, the bad luck (which is a cherry).
To have the cherry: to be unlucky, to have the bad luck.
It's the icing on the cake: the little detail that completes, crowns a company (see below).
Have fun with the cherry: eat heartily, valiantly.
Recover the cherry: restore health (after an illness); to rebuild a reputation (after a scandal).
Bring back your cherry: give yourself airs.
My cherry : me (like my apple).
The expression "The icing on the cake": The final little detail that perfects an achievement - The additional advantage - The height, the bouquet (ironically).
We are simply dealing here with a pastry metaphor, by comparison with this superb cake on which sits, in the middle, a beautiful cherry of a perfectly natural red, a small final decorative touch that makes the pastry more appetizing). is an exact translation of the English expression the cherry on the cake or its variant the cherry on top (meaning "the cherry on top", implied: of the cake) whose date of appearance does not is, it seems, not known, but the origin or meaning of which could not be clearer. It can be noted that in Anglo-Saxon countries, the icing on the cake, the metaphor this time about the sweet icing with which we cover certain pastries.