cream in one's coffee
English
Noun
cream in one's coffee (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) Something that one relishes.
- 1928, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown (lyrics), Ray Henderson (music), “You're the Cream in my Coffee”:
- 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.