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10 ADJ You can use top to indicate that something is the first thing you are going to do, because you consider it to be the most important. □  Cleaning up the water supply is their top priority. □ [+ of ] On arrival, a six-course meal was top of the agenda.

11 ADJ [ADJ n] You can use top to indicate that someone does a particular thing more times than anyone else or that something is chosen more times than anything else. □  He was Italy's top scorer during the World Cup matches.

12 VERB To top a list means to be mentioned or chosen more times than anyone or anything else. [JOURNALISM ] □ [V n] Tourists from Southern Europe topped the list of visitors, representing 47 per cent of arrivals.

13 VERB If something tops a particular amount, it is larger than that amount. [JOURNALISM ] □ [V n] Imports topped £10 billion last month.

14 VERB If something is topped with something, it has that thing as its highest part. □ [be V -ed + with/by ] The holiest of their chapels are topped with gilded roofs. □ [V n + with ] To serve, top the fish with the cooked leeks. [Also V n] ●  -topped COMB □  …the glass-topped table.

15 VERB If you top a story, remark, or action, you follow it with a better or more impressive one. □ [V n] How are you going to top that?

16 ADV You can use tops after mentioning a quantity, to say that it is the maximum possible. [INFORMAL ] □  The publisher expected the book to sell 1,500 copies, tops.

17 → see also topping

18 PHRASE If someone blows their top , they become very angry about something. [INFORMAL ] □  He blew his top after airport officials refused to let him on a plane.

19 PHRASE If a person, organization, or country comes out on top , they are more successful than the others that they have been competing with. □  The only way to come out on top is to adopt a different approach.

20 PHRASE If someone pays top dollar for something, they pay the highest possible price for it. [INFORMAL ] □  People will always pay top dollar for something exclusive.

21 PHRASE If you say that you clean, tidy, or examine something from top to bottom , you are emphasizing that you do it completely and thoroughly. [EMPHASIS ] □  She would clean the house from top to bottom.

22 PHRASE You can use from top to toe to emphasize that the whole of someone's body is covered or dressed in a particular thing or type of clothing. [EMPHASIS ] □  They were sensibly dressed from top to toe in rain gear.

23 PHRASE When something gets on top of you, it makes you feel unhappy or depressed because it is very difficult or worrying, or because it involves more work than you can manage. □  Things have been getting on top of me lately.

24 PHRASE If you say something off the top of your head , you say it without thinking about it much before you speak, especially because you do not have enough time. □  It was the best I could think of off the top of my head.

25 PHRASE If one thing is on top of another, it is placed over it or on its highest part. □ [+ of ] …the vacuum flask that was resting on top of the stove.

26 PHRASE You can use on top or on top of to indicate that a particular problem exists in addition to a number of other problems. □  An extra 700 jobs are being cut on top of the 2,000 that were lost last year.

27 PHRASE You say that someone is on top when they have reached the most important position in an organization or business. □  How does he stay on top, 17 years after becoming foreign minister?

28 PHRASE If you are on top of or get on top of something that you are doing, you are dealing with it successfully. □  …the government's inability to get on top of the situation.