🍞 “not my cup of tea”

What it means: Not to my taste; not something I want.

“Skiing is lovely, but it’s not my cup of tea.”

Where it comes from

British tea as the measure of preference; the negative form is the one that survived into the 20th century.

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spill the beansa piece of cakethe best thing since sliced breada hard pill to swallowbread and butter

More phrases, including proverbs from dozens of languages, at Proverbs of the World.