cream in one's coffee

English

Noun

cream in one's coffee (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic) Something that one relishes.
    • 1928, “You're the Cream in my Coffee”, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown (lyrics), Ray Henderson (music):
      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.
    • 1992 July 4, Frank R.A.J. Maloney, “90210”, in soc.motss‎ (Usenet):
      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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