take the biscuit Definition

biscuit
noun

(especially Brit)
1a. A small thin sweet crisp cake, in any of numerous varieties or flavours, etc. N Amer equivalent cookie;
(especially Brit)
1b. A small thin crisp plain or savoury cake. N Amer equivalent cracker.

Example: cheese and biscuits
(N Amer)
2. An unsweetened scone, eaten eg with meat or gravy.
3. Objects made from baked clay that have not been glazed. Also called bisque.

Form: biscuitware
4. A pale golden brown or pale tan colour. Also called bisque.

adj

1. Pale golden brown or pale tan in colour.

Derivative: biscuity
adj

Like a biscuit in flavour, texture or colour.

Idiom: take the biscuit

(rit)
ironic, colloq
To surpass everything else that has happened; to be worse than anything
Example: His last comment really took the biscuit

Etymology: A 20c variant of take the cake. &clock; 14c: ultimately from Latin bis twice + coquere to cook.