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cream in one's coffee en · NOUN
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(idiomatic, uncountable) Something that one relishes.
You're the cream in my coffee. You're the salt in my stew. You will always be my necessity. I'd be lost without you.
1928, “You're the Cream in my Coffee”, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown (lyrics), Ray Henderson (music):As for sideburns, the attraction was lost on me even in the 50s, but big, anachronistic muttonchops on hippy boys were the cream in my coffee in the 60s.
1992 July 4, Frank R.A.J. Maloney, “90210”, in soc.motss (Usenet):