crown with

crown (someone or something) with (something)

1. Literally, to adorn one's head with a crown. The headmaster crowned the May Queen with roses during the ceremony.
2. By extension, to top something with something. What do you want the architect to crown the column with?
3. To hit one violently in the head. The clerk crowned the armed robber with a baseball bat.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crown someone with something

 
1. Lit. to place a crown on someone's head. They crowned the prince with the heavily jeweled royal crown.
2. Fig. to strike someone on the head with something. She crowned him with a skillet. The carpenter crowned himself with a board he knocked loose.
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crown something with something

Fig. to place something on the very top of something. (As if crowning royalty.) The chef crowned the cake with golden icing.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • crown
  • crown (someone or something) with (something)
  • top (something) with (something)
  • top with
  • have (someone) at (one's) mercy
  • have somebody at your mercy
  • clean (one's) act up
  • clean act up
  • clean up (one's) act
  • clean up act
References in periodicals archive
Crown ratio is calculated by dividing the total length of crown with total height (LTC / ht).
Carefully inspect the muzzle crown with high magnification to see how the bevel is forming.
After tracking down the crown winner and reuniting the crown with its winner they decided to return it to a school in Llanelli.
Native New Yorker Allison Hunter Williams, an executive news producer, steps out in this rich ebony "Beatrice" crown with silk fabric trim and oversized feathers, by Carmen R.
Peacock, their feathers ruffled, came back at Crown with a vengeance, testing the defence and forcing Crown keeper Ross Evans to make several saves.