The Difference Between "Cream" and "Creme" [closed]
WEBNov 30, 2016 · 1 : a sweet liqueur. 2 : cream or a preparation made with or resembling cream used in cooking. The word comes from French crème, which means... cream! Cream, in English, is a word that means "that dairy product that comes from the fatty stuff from milk." Cream is used in common foods like whipped cream and sour cream.
Origin of "cream of the crop" - English Language & Usage Stack …
WEBCream of the crop started out meaning semi-literally best of the crop. The extension to mean the best of anything seems to have occurred in the second quarter of the 20th century. There is an earlier expression, crème de la crème (often spelled creme de la creme), which is a borrowing from French (where it means, literally, cream of the cream).
phrases - Antonym of "crème de la crème" - English Language
WEBOct 13, 2015 · The phrase "crème de la crème" means to be the best of the best. Is there a phrase that means the opposite of this, that is, to be the worst of the worst? The phrase doesn't have to come from French. Bottom of the barrel is the actual opposite, and seems close to a metaphorical one. @JohnLawler - Agreed. I think that should be an answer.
"You can cream on me" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
WEBJul 28, 2023 · Yeah, we all need someone we can cream on // Yeah and if you want to, well you can cream on me. On the Cambridge dictionary, I only find this meaning for cream as a verb. to make food into a smooth, thick liquid. And for the phrasal verb "cream off" (not on): to remove the best part of something or the best people in a group and use them for ...
What is the difference between "a dash" and "a dollop" of cream?
WEBAug 4, 2018 · I was doing this CPE vocabulary test when I came across the following sentence: "If you say you'd like _______ of cream on your strawberries then you don't want very much cream." • a da...
"Sour cream" versus "soured cream" - English Language & Usage …
WEB0. Both sour cream and soured cream may be understood in two ways: as an edible food that has intentionally been made or allowed to become sour, or as an unpalatable food that had originated as fresh or sweet cream and was meant to be used in that form but then turned or went bad. 'Sour cream' as a desirable food.
"The cat that got the cream" - is there any innuendo?
WEBAug 10, 2018 · In my 51 years of being British, and 50 years of speaking British English, I can safely say I have never come across any innuendo associated with the phrase "The cat that got the cream".
What is the name of the small containers of half & half, etc.?
WEBOct 3, 2012 · @MetaEd yeah, I guess that does make sense, but the detail I failed to provide was that this is being used in an explanation of a technical detail, so I guess I'm looking for the word that would more readily bring that object I'm describing to mind rather than a technically correct one.
How to rephrase "cream flavoured cream"? - English Language
WEBJul 17, 2013 · If you wanted to stay away from creme and kreme, the simplest way to avoid the repetition of cream in your example would be to replace the second cream with filling: "Wafers with cream-flavoured filling." In the context of a mass-produced sweet treat, U.S. readers would immediately interpret "filling" to mean "squishy or pasty (and very sugary ...
meaning - Which is right: “The cream cheese comes with the …
WEBSep 26, 2018 · This is actually an excellent question; never noticed this discrepancy before. There are four possible variants (the two you give plus two with indefinite “cream cheese" instead of definite “the cream cheese”), and quite bizarrely, three of them mean the same, while the fourth is ambiguous but would generally mean the opposite unless context demanded otherwise.
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