Definition of Cup of tea

1. Noun. An activity that you like or at which you are superior. "Marriage was scarcely his dish"

Exact synonyms: Bag, Dish
Generic synonyms: Activity

Definition of Cup of tea

1. Noun. A cup full of tea. ¹

2. Noun. (idiomatic singular only) Whatever suits or interests one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cup Of Tea

cup-bearer
cup-bearers
cup-shaped
cup-tied
cup and saucer
cup biopsy forceps
cup final
cup fungus
cup hook
cup morel
cup o' joe
cup of coffee
cup of joe
cup of palm
cup of tea (current term)
cup size
cup that cheers
cup tie
cupalite
cupbearer
cupbearers
cupboard
cupboard love
cupboardful
cupboardfuls
cupboardless
cupboardlike
cupboards
cupboardsful

Literary usage of Cup of tea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"Perhaps you '11 be pood enough to make me a cup of tea? ... Your cup of tea, Mr. Karslake. JOHN. (Rising and taking tea with courteous indifference. ..."

2. Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not by Florence Nightingale (1912)
"This is not the case at all; it is however certain that there is nothing yet discovered which is a substitute to the English patient for his cup of tea; ..."

3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Two letters used in prescriptions, meaning the quantity may be as little or much as you like. Tims, in a cup of tea we might say " Milk and ..."

4. Knitting-work: A Web of Many Textures by Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1859)
"A CUP of tea ! There is nothing like the gentle excitation of tea. ... Your true connoisseur regales all his senses in his cup of tea. ..."

5. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"Thus, a gentleman informed me that his grandfather had become accustomed to wake up from sound sleep at twelve o'clock every night and drink a cup of tea, ..."

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