cup of tea

1. 1.

   an activity that you like or at which you are superior

   “chemistry is not my cup of tea”

   “his bag now is learning to play golf”

   “marriage was scarcely his dish”

   Synonymsbagdish

   Broaderactivity

Questions about cup of tea

What does cup of tea mean?

cup of tea means "an activity that you like or at which you are superior".

What is another word for cup of tea?

Close synonyms include bag, dish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cup of tea a common word?

cup of tea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.