cream sth/sb off
— Phrasal Verb with cream /kriːm/ verbDefinition
UK
› to take away the best part of something, or the best people in a group, and use them for your own advantage: Football clubs like to cream off schoolchildren with talent.
(Definition of cream sth/sb off from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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