cup that cheers

English

Etymology

From Thomas Cowper's The Task (1785): "...the bubbling and loud hissing urn / Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, / That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each..."

Noun

cup that cheers (plural cups that cheer)

  1. (humorous) A cup of tea.
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