cup of tea

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (careful speech) /ˈkʌp əv ˈtiː/, (fast speech) /ˌkʌp ə ˈtiː/
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Noun

cup of tea (plural cups of tea)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cup,‎ tea. A cup or mug with tea in it.
Synonyms: (colloquial) cuppa, (chiefly UK, Ireland) brew

Would you be a dear and get me a cup of tea, please?
- 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was a risk”, in RAIL, pages 65–66:
  In the heady days of 1970, the national average wage was about £6,200 in today's money, but a cup of BR tea was within everyone's reach at 9d (2020 value: 55p) until it suddenly went up to 11p (2020: 70p). (The 2020 price would relate to 11d, not 11p; decimalisation took place in 1971.)
- 2022 January 26, “Network News: Samaritans Brew Monday returns to station concourses”, in RAIL, number 949, page 25:
  "We know the impact talking and listening can have. A cup of tea and a chat won't solve everything, but it can be a start.
(idiomatic, singular only) Whatever suits or interests one.
Synonyms: bag, cup of coffee, cup of joe; see also Thesaurus:predilection

Daytime television is not my cup of tea.
(bingo) three

Usage notes

(whatever suits or interests one): Used in phrases such as "not his cup of tea", "just my cup of tea", etc.

Translations

tea in a cup

Assamese: please add this translation if you can
Bengali: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: tassa de te
Chinese:
Mandarin: 杯茶 (bēi chá)
Cornish: hanafas a de m
Dutch: kopje thee
Esperanto: taso da teo
Finnish: kuppi teetä, kupillinen teetä
French: tasse de thé f
German: Tasse Tee f
Greek: φλιτζάνι τσάι n (flitzáni tsái)
Hebrew: כּוֹס תֵּה (kos tēh)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: egy csésze tea
Irish: cupán tae m
Italian: tazza di tè
Japanese: please add this translation if you can
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Manx: cappan dy hey m
Mongolian: аяга цай (ajaga caj)
Odia: please add this translation if you can
Portuguese: xícara de chá
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
Romanian: ceașcă de ceai
Scottish Gaelic: strùpag f, cupa tì m, copan teatha m
Spanish: taza de té
Swedish: kopp te c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: tách trà
Welsh: paned m, paned o de m, dysglaid f, dysglaid o de f

something of interest

Chinese:
Mandarin: 菜 (zh) (cài)
Dutch: kopje thee
Esperanto: plezuro (eo), interesaĵo
Finnish: juttu (fi)
French: tasse de thé (fr) f, truc (fr) m (literally “(one's) thing”)
German: Ding (de) (literally “(one's) thing”)
Hindi: पसंद का काम (pasand kā kām)
Hungarian: (one’s type; of a person) esete (hu) (literally “his/her case”), neki való (literally “suited to him”), neki találták ki (literally “devised for him/her”), az ő világa (literally “his/her world”), az ő ízlése (literally “his/her taste”), az ő műfaja (literally “his/her genre”)
Italian: prediletto (it) m, preferito (it) m, (quello che) fa per me (usually in the negative), consono (it) m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: greie (no) f

Nynorsk: greie f
Polish: bajka (pl) f
Portuguese: praia (de alguém) f
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Russian: конёк (ru) m (konjók)
Spanish: plato del gusto m (usually in the negative), santo de la devoción m (usually in the negative)
Thai: แนว (th) (nɛɛo) (colloquial)
Urdu: پسند کا کام (pasand kā kām)
Vietnamese: sở thích (vi)

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Macedonian: шо́лја ча́ј f (šólja čáj)

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