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Is there a situation where one would be better than the other? Or are the two phrases used interchangeably?

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"The cherry on the top", is, I think, the more common idiom. The meaning is pretty much the same: An inessential element that nevertheless completes and perfects something that is already good.

Both are rather clichéd.

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