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not be someone's cup of tea

if someone or something is not your cup of tea, you do not like them or you are not interested in them. If Yeats isn't your cup of tea, why not try some of the more contemporary Irish poets?

See also: tea

be in your cups (old-fashioned)

to be very drunk. When he was in his cups he would recite lines of poetry in a loud voice.

There's many a slip twixt cup and lip. (literary)

something that you say in order to warn someone not to be too confident about the result of a plan, because many things can go wrong before it is completed. We still might finish in time for the deadline, but there's many a slip twixt cup and lip.

See also: lip, many, slip

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not someone's cup of tea

not what someone likes or is interested in. I realize a fantasy computer game is not everyone's cup of tea, but this one is amazing.

Usage notes: also used without not: I like suspense in movies. It's my cup of tea.

See also: tea