Here's an idiom for you to try out this week in your daily speaking practice!
'It’s not my cup of tea' is about the most British thing that anyone can ever say, think about the fact that in Britain we drink 4 to 5 cups of tea a day, everybody and anybody enjoys a good cup of tea in this country, so to say 'it’s not my cup of tea' means it’s really something that you don’t like; basically it’s not who you are or what you’re interested in.
We usually say it when we refer to habits or interests, things that we normally don’t do by choice.
In natural speech it’s almost always used with 'really' which kind of softens the sentence, you find that in British English we do this a lot so as not to have a very strong opinion using ‘quite’ ‘such’ ‘really, for example:
I’m not such a fan. / I don’t really fancy it. / It’s not quite what I had in mind. / It’s not really my cup of tea.
To change it for different people you simply swap the possessive pronoun as follows;
it’s not my cup of tea
it’s not your cup of tea
it’s not his cup of tea
it’s not her cup of tea
it’s not our cup of tea
it’s not their cup of tea
Let’s have a look at some examples:
Do you want to come with us to the theatre this weekend? No thanks, it’s not really my cup of tea.
I don’t think she enjoyed the movie, action films aren’t really her cup of tea.
I’m not sure they'll come on holiday with us again this year, skiing isn’t really their cup of tea.
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