Idiom
someone's cup of tea
Meaning
An activity or domain in which someone is interested or skilled in; one's personal preference.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Horror movies are not my cup of tea.”
“I appreciate the invitation to the opera, but it really is not my cup of tea.”
“While he admired the technical precision of the abstract painting, he admitted that such modern art was simply not his cup of tea.”
Examples
simple
“Horror movies are not my cup of tea.”
contextual
“I appreciate the invitation to the opera, but it really is not my cup of tea.”
complex
“While he admired the technical precision of the abstract painting, he admitted that such modern art was simply not his cup of tea.”
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