CUP OF TEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cup of tea mean? 

• CUP OF TEA (noun)
  The noun CUP OF TEA has 1 sense:

1. an activity that you like or at which you are superior

  Familiarity information: CUP OF TEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUP OF TEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An activity that you like or at which you are superior

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bag; cup of tea; dish

Context example:

marriage was scarcely his dish

Hypernyms ("cup of tea" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

 Context examples 

Suddenly she sat up, and, as she opened her eyes, said sweetly:—"Would none of you like a cup of tea? You must all be so tired!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“I have ordered a carriage,” said Lestrade as we sat over a cup of tea.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He has a cup of tea taken in to him early every morning.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thus the holidays lagged away, until the morning came when Miss Murdstone said: “Here's the last day off!” and gave me the closing cup of tea of the vacation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Venus and Jupiter will conjoin in Sagittarius, suggesting people from many nationalities will be present—this is just your cup of tea.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Her mother gave her an extra cordial cup of tea.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Two days later, having eaten an egg and two slices of toast and drunk a cup of tea, he asked for his mail, but found his eyes still hurt too much to permit him to read.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Having invited Helen and me to approach the table, and placed before each of us a cup of tea with one delicious but thin morsel of toast, she got up, unlocked a drawer, and taking from it a parcel wrapped in paper, disclosed presently to our eyes a good-sized seed-cake.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I got a cup of tea at the Aërated Bread Company and came down to Purfleet by the next train.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If you would come and see us, any afternoon, and take a cup of tea at our lowly dwelling, mother would be as proud of your company as I should be.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)