"crown it all" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: crowns it all [present, singular, third-person], crowning it all [participle, present], crowned it all [participle, past], crowned it all [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} crown it all (third-person singular simple present crowns it all, present participle crowning it all, simple past and past participle crowned it all)
  1. (British) To be the final, or last-mentioned, event or occurrence in a series of particularly favourable / fortunate or unfavourable / unfortunate events. Tags: British Synonyms: cap it all, top it off
    Sense id: en-crown_it_all-en-verb-L4Tf2skA Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it"

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