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n. (context idiomatic English) The best or most desirable among some selection.
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Cream of the crop may refer to:
- Cream of the Crop, the 1969 album recorded by Diana Ross & the Supremes
- Cream of the Crop (Dead Milkmen album), a 1998 compilation album by The Dead Milkmen
- Crème de la crème (disambiguation)
Usage examples of "cream of the crop".
The few women who did manage to succeed against such expectations tended to be pure cream of the crop.
Of course that's the cream of the crop, the ones with enough gumption to stick it.
I was the cream of the cream of the crop, as hard and cold as they came.
The cream of the crop seemed to be something very small and simple in a squat amber bottle.
McQueen has those three out in the field running her ops, and it looks like she's giving them the cream of the crop as squadron and task group commanders.
You had to be a pretty dangerous fellow to get sent to Hell, of coursesort of the cream of the crop, the kind of people who were likely to start building resistance cells if you were left to your own devices.