cream

/kriːm/ verb

Translation

cream sth/sb off phrasal verb UK

› to take away the best part of something, or the best people in a group, and use them for your own advantage

(insan, eşya) kaymağını/en iyisini/en üst tabakayı almak ve kendi çıkarı için kullanmak

Football clubs like to cream off schoolchildren with talent.1957

(Definition of cream verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to manage not to be destroyed, harmed or permanently affected by the difficult situation you...

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