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Idiom

cream in one's coffee

Meaning

Something that one relishes.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“A quiet morning with a book is the cream in my coffee.”

“Winning the championship after a long season was truly the cream in his coffee.”

“For the exhausted traveler, the unexpected upgrade to a luxury suite was the absolute cream in his coffee.”

Examples

simple

“A quiet morning with a book is the cream in my coffee.”

contextual

“Winning the championship after a long season was truly the cream in his coffee.”

complex

“For the exhausted traveler, the unexpected upgrade to a luxury suite was the absolute cream in his coffee.”

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