The first. In The Mighty Quinn Bob Dylan used the variation 'cup of meat' - I don't know whether that's normal AmE usage, but I've always thought it was just Dylan being Dylan. But 'Not my cup of tea' is very common.
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- 04-Dec-2006, 22:21 #1Unregistered Guest
cup of tea "Not my cup of tea" or "Not my kind of cup of tea"? Which one is right?
- 04-Dec-2006, 22:28 #2
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- 05-Dec-2006, 10:00 #3
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Re: cup of tea It means "that is not what I prefer".
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