cup of coffee

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time. slang
    — I was up for a cup of coffee once; those were the best six days of my career.
  2. One’s personal preference. figuratively
    — Since social anthropology is not my cup of coffee, I leave it to the research scholars to discover the true significance of this transformation.
  3. An invitation to have sex. euphemistic
  4. How cheap something is. informal
    — This Wi-Fi jammer costs a cup of coffee.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cup, coffee.

词形变化

cups of coffee plural

词源

Based on the idea that the player was only there long enough to have a cup of coffee.
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