cream of the crop

best of the group

Example Sentences:

Teacher One: How are your students this year?
Teacher Two: Pretty good. Mike is the smartest, however. He is the cream of the crop.

That guy is not the cream of the crop. He’s so lazy.

William is slow, he’s always late for work and he takes cigarette breaks throughout the day. He is not the cream of the crop.

I got the highest mark on the math test! I am the cream of the crop!

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The cream of the crop has not yet risen in this very fluid primary process HERE

Similar idioms:

1. clamp down on something