CREAM Идиома

cream of the crop

best of a group, the top choice The company is well-known as a good place to work and is always able to hire the cream of the crop of university graduates.

cream you

hit you, knock you down, knock you flat If Jon discovers you lied to him, he'll cream you. He'll hit you.

peaches-and-cream

beautiful skin, clear complexion This new lotion will give you a peaches-and-cream complexion.

CREAM

1. to ejaculate; to cream oneself implies great sexual excitement, but is often said only figuratively
2. Cash Rules Everything Around Me
3. money

cream crackered

knackered, tired out, exhausted; rhyming slang

cream your jeans

to be very excited, so much so that one figuratively ejaculates. Not always necessarily sexual excitement:"God, she's gorgeous. I think I've just creamed my pants"

scream bloody murder

Idiom(s): scream bloody murder

Theme: COMPLAINT

to complain bitterly; to complain unduly. (Slang.)
• When we put him in an office without a window, he screamed bloody murder.
• There is something wrong next door. Everyone is screaming bloody murder.

Cream rises to the top

A good person or idea cannot go unnoticed for long, just as cream poured in coffee or tea eventually rises to the top.

Like a cat that got the cream

If someone looks very pleased with themselves and happy, they look like a cat that got the cream.

Scream blue murder

If someone shouts very loudly in anger, or fear, they scream blue murder.

like the cat that's got the cream

look very pleased with yourself: "He looks like the cat that's got the cream!"

cream of the crop|cream|crop

n. phr. The best of a group; the top choice. May Queen candidates were lovely, but Betsy and Nancy were the cream of the crop. The students had drawn many good pictures and the teacher chose the cream of the crop to hang up when the parents came to visit.

scream bloody murder|bloody|murder|scream

v. phr., informal To yell or protest as strongly as one can. When the thief grabbed her purse, the woman screamed bloody murder. When the city doubled property taxes, home owners screamed bloody murder.

vanishing cream|cream|vanishing

n. A cosmetic cream for the skin that is used chiefly before face powder. Mrs. Jones spread vanishing cream on her face before applying her face powder.

cream of the crop, the

cream of the crop, the
The best or choicest of anything, as in The apples from this orchard are definitely the cream of the crop. The noun cream has been used to mean “the best” since the 16th century. The French equivalent of the present term, la crème de la crème (“the cream of the cream”) was familiar in English by 1800.