| 单词 | cream of the crop |
| 释义 | > as lemmascream of the crop cream of the crop n. (originally) the best produce from a harvest; (now chiefly in extended use) the best of a group of people or things; cf. sense 3. ΚΠ 1851 Boston Daily Atlas 6 Mar. 2/4 Their customers require goods made of the best cotton, the cream of the crop. 1876 Times of India 14 Mar. 1/2 (advt.) Tobaccos, finest Virginia Golden Leaf and Honeydew, ‘Cream of the Crop’. 1915 Independent 27 Dec. 532 The war has taught us that the blood of nations..is to be entrusted only to the freshest, the most elastic, the most gifted of military spirits, the very cream of the crop. 1919 U. P. Hedrick Man. Amer. Grape-growing xiv. 263 With tree-fruits, the cream of the crop goes to the fresh fruit market. 1950 Gaz. & Bull. (Williamsport, Pa.) 7 Jan. 12/3 (advt.) Automobiles for sale. Cream of the crop at prices that will pleasantly surprise. 2007 E. Clapton & C. S. Sykes Autobiogr. 77 In all our minds we were the cream of the crop, the elite in our respective domains. < as lemmas |
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