My cup of tea（在线收听）

 　　My cup of tea refers to the sort of thing that pleases or appeals to me. The metaphor is nearly always used negatively. The expression came into use between the First and Second World Wars. In the Victorian age the consumption of tea by all classes had not yet, especially among men, become common. A more likely metaphor then, derived from food or drink for something not to one"s taste, would have been, say, "not my pot of beer", or among the well-to-do classes "not my glass of wine". Later the increasing employment of women in offices led to the introduction there of afternoon tea, in which gradually the male members of a staff would join. Later, tea would come to be regarded as a universal social drink. Individual taste, however, often varied: for China or India tea; weak or strong; with or without milk; with or without sugar; with lemon. This variation would naturally lend itself to the expression "That is not my cup of tea", and then by extension in general reference to other things that did not suit one"s taste: e.g. an entertainment at a theatre, a book, etc., with the meaning "Whatever others may like, that is not the sort of thing to appeal to me".