cream the crop

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To pick out the most valuable or desirable things or people from a group for one's own interests. idiomatic
    — In the past, most agencies assumed that the other agencies were “creaming the crop,” training (or placing) the easiest or most docile or best-educated clients, manipulating data (or losing it if necessary) to look good: promising to do next year what they had promised to do the year before.

词形变化

creams the crop present,singular,third-person creaming the crop participle,present creamed the crop participle,past creamed the crop past

词源

From cream of the crop.
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