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cup of tea
(encz) | cup of tea,oblíbená činnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
cup of tea
(encz) | cup of tea,šálek čaje n: jak168 |
cup of tea
(wn) | cup of tea
n 1: an activity that you like or at which you are superior;
"chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning
to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish" [syn: {cup
of tea}, bag, dish] |
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iso standard cup of tea
(jargon) | ISO standard cup of tea
n.
[South Africa] A cup of tea with milk and one teaspoon of sugar, where the
milk is poured into the cup before the tea. Variations are ISO 0, with no
sugar; ISO 2, with two spoons of sugar; and so on.
This may derive from the “NATO standard” cup of coffee and tea (milk and
two sugars), military slang going back to the late 1950s and parodying
NATO's relentless bureaucratic drive to standardize parts across European
and U.S. militaries.
Like many ISO standards, this one has a faintly alien ring in North
America, where hackers generally shun the decadent British practice of
adulterating perfectly good tea with dairy products and prefer instead to
add a wedge of lemon, if anything. If one were feeling extremely silly, one
might hypothesize an analogous ANSI standard cup of tea and wind up with a
political situation distressingly similar to several that arise in much
more serious technical contexts. (Milk and lemon don't mix very well.)
[2000 update: There is now, in fact, an ISO standard 3103: ‘Method for
preparation of a liquor of tea for use in sensory tests.’, alleged to be
equivalent to British Standard BS6008: How to make a standard cup of tea.
—ESR]
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