See someone's cup of tea in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "!"
},
"expansion": "someone's cup of tea (plural not attested)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English negative polarity items",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English nouns with unattested plurals",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English singularia tantum",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hindi links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hindi links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Dutch translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hindi translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Hungarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Italian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Thai translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Urdu translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Urdu links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Urdu links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Tea",
"orig": "en:Tea",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
47,
60
]
],
"text": "Ah, a discussion of definitional minutia: just my cup of tea!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
64,
77
]
],
"ref": "1971, The British Journal of Photography, volume 118, H. Greenwood, page 19:",
"text": "I never do weddings, for no other reason than that they are not my cup of tea, but as this was quid pro quo, I succumbed, albeit reluctantly.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"something one likes"
],
"id": "en-someone's_cup_of_tea-en-noun-pFOIA9Gr",
"links": [
[
"like",
"like"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, singular only) something one likes"
],
"related": [
{
"word": "up someone's alley"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bag"
},
{
"word": "cup of coffee"
},
{
"word": "cup of joe"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "affinity"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "bag"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "bent"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "cup of coffee"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "cup of joe"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "cup of tea"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "dish"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "fancy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "jam"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "liking"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "partiality"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "penchant"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "predilection"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "predisposition"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "preference"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "proclivity"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "propension"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "propensity"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "shine"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "taste"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "thing"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"no-plural",
"singular",
"singular-only"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "cài",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "菜"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "iemands ding"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "juttu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tasse de thé"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "truc"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Ding"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"lang_code": "hi",
"roman": "pasand kā kām",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "पसंद का काम"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "one’s type; of a person",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"translation": "one’s type; of a person",
"word": "esete"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "neki való"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "neki találták ki"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "az ő világa"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "az ő ízlése"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "az ő műfaja"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prediletto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "preferito"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"usually",
"with-negation"
],
"word": "(quello che) fa per me"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "consono"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "greie"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "greie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bajka"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "konik"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "praia (de alguém)"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "konjók",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "конёк"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "[ser] plato del gusto [de]"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "[no ser] santo de la devoción [de]"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "serle grato"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "del gusto de"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "irle a"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"lang_code": "th",
"roman": "nɛɛo",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "แนว"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"lang_code": "ur",
"roman": "pasand kā kām",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "پسند کا کام"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "sở thích"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-someone's cup of tea.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-someone%26%2339%3Bs_cup_of_tea.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-someone%26%2339%3Bs_cup_of_tea.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-someone%26%2339%3Bs_cup_of_tea.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-someone%26%2339%3Bs_cup_of_tea.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"word": "someone's cup of tea"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "!"
},
"expansion": "someone's cup of tea (plural not attested)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "up someone's alley"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English negative polarity items",
"English nouns",
"English nouns with unattested plurals",
"English singularia tantum",
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Hindi links with redundant alt parameters",
"Hindi links with redundant wikilinks",
"Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Urdu translations",
"Terms with Vietnamese translations",
"Translation table header lacks gloss",
"Urdu links with redundant alt parameters",
"Urdu links with redundant wikilinks",
"en:Tea"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
47,
60
]
],
"text": "Ah, a discussion of definitional minutia: just my cup of tea!",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
64,
77
]
],
"ref": "1971, The British Journal of Photography, volume 118, H. Greenwood, page 19:",
"text": "I never do weddings, for no other reason than that they are not my cup of tea, but as this was quid pro quo, I succumbed, albeit reluctantly.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"something one likes"
],
"links": [
[
"like",
"like"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic, singular only) something one likes"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bag"
},
{
"word": "cup of coffee"
},
{
"word": "cup of joe"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "affinity"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "bag"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "bent"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "cup of coffee"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "cup of joe"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "cup of tea"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "dish"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "fancy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "jam"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "liking"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "partiality"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "penchant"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "predilection"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "predisposition"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "preference"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "proclivity"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"rare"
],
"word": "propension"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "propensity"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "shine"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"word": "taste"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:predilection",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "thing"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"no-plural",
"singular",
"singular-only"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-someone's cup of tea.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-someone%26%2339%3Bs_cup_of_tea.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-someone%26%2339%3Bs_cup_of_tea.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/15/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-someone%26%2339%3Bs_cup_of_tea.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-someone%26%2339%3Bs_cup_of_tea.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
]
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "cài",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "菜"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"lang_code": "nl",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "iemands ding"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "juttu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "tasse de thé"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "truc"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "Ding"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"lang_code": "hi",
"roman": "pasand kā kām",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "पसंद का काम"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"english": "one’s type; of a person",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"translation": "one’s type; of a person",
"word": "esete"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "neki való"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "neki találták ki"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "az ő világa"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "az ő ízlése"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "az ő műfaja"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "prediletto"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "preferito"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"usually",
"with-negation"
],
"word": "(quello che) fa per me"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "consono"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"lang_code": "nb",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "greie"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"lang_code": "nn",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "greie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "bajka"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "konik"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "praia (de alguém)"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "konjók",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "конёк"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "[ser] plato del gusto [de]"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "[no ser] santo de la devoción [de]"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "serle grato"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "del gusto de"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "irle a"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"lang_code": "th",
"roman": "nɛɛo",
"sense": "Translations",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
],
"word": "แนว"
},
{
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"lang_code": "ur",
"roman": "pasand kā kām",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "پسند کا کام"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "Translations",
"word": "sở thích"
}
],
"word": "someone's cup of tea"
}
Download raw JSONL data for someone's cup of tea meaning in English (7.8kB)
{
"called_from": "translations/611",
"msg": "suspicious translation with '[': {'lang': 'Spanish', 'code': 'es', 'lang_code': 'es', 'sense': 'Translations', 'tags': ['masculine'], 'word': '[ser] plato del gusto [de]'}",
"path": [
"someone's cup of tea"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "someone's cup of tea",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "translations/611",
"msg": "suspicious translation with '[': {'lang': 'Spanish', 'code': 'es', 'lang_code': 'es', 'sense': 'Translations', 'tags': ['masculine'], 'word': '[no ser] santo de la devoción [de]'}",
"path": [
"someone's cup of tea"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "someone's cup of tea",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-02 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-07-06 using wiktextract (d9fa233 and 9e92f4b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.