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cup of tea noun- something that is to your taste UK, 1932
Variants are “cup of char” and “cuppa.” - That’s about your mark, I should think. That’s about your cup of tea. Isn’t it? — Clive Exton, No Fixed Abode [Six Granada Plays], p. 122, 1959
- I’m surprised. I wouldn’t have thought it would be, like, your cup of tea. — Melanie McGrath, Hard, Soft & Wet, p. 106, 1998
- “Well,” I had to acknowledge, “not my own cuppa.” — Claire Mansfield and John Mendelssohn, Dominatrix, p. 16, 2002
- He’s not really my cup of char musically, but the small crowd keep dancing, and the beats are big. — Donna Legge, BBCi, 27 May 2003
- an act of urination UK
Rhyming slang for PEEWEE - If you hear someody in the pub announce that he is going for a “cup of tea” he isn’t. — Ray Puxley, Cockney Rabbit, p. 43, 1992
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