Meaning of cream in one's coffee | Babel Free

Definitions

Something that one relishes.

idiomatic, uncountable

Examples

“You're the cream in my coffee. You're the salt in my stew. You will always be my necessity. I'd be lost without you.”

“As for sideburns, the attraction was lost on me even in the 50s, but big, anachronistic muttonchops on hippy boys were the cream in my coffee in the 60s.”

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