cream of the crop

cream of the crop
the cream of the crop
Fig. the best of all. •

This particular car is the cream of the crop.

These three students are very bright. They are the cream of the crop in their class.

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{n. phr.} The best of a group; the top choice. * /May Queen candidates were lovely, but Betsy and Nancy were the cream of the crop./ * /The students had drawn many good pictures and the teacher chose the cream of the crop to hang up when the parents came to visit./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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