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