Sunday 29 July 2012

A cup of tea

Numerous types of tea - Green Tea, Black Tea, Irani Chai, and so on. In monsoon, on a rainy day, sipping a hot cup of tea is a must. Put together - water, tea leaves, milk and cardamom create such a magic potion mixture call tea.

                 Magic potion since it relieves the headache and stimulate instant energy in few minutes. How did this saying come in to being "It's not my cup of tea". The person who  have coined this phrase may have tasted many types of tea and may not have liked one of those type and consequently came to a conclusion that this is not his cup of tea.

As the wheels of taste buds of long acted slowly on numerous variety of teas, ultimately establishing the difference between gimmick and expedient tastes or otherwise he denies involvement of particular tastes as better on the taste buds. The tastes which qualified the taste buds became his cup of tea. The idiom is used beautifully and significantly connect it with the real fact.

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