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creaming the crop

creaming the crop is the present participle and gerund of cream the crop.

Meaning of cream the crop

Verb

cream the crop (third-person singular simple present creams the crop, present participle creaming the crop, simple past and past participle creamed the crop)

  1. (idiomatic) To pick out the most valuable or desirable things or people from a group for one's own interests.
    • 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.1968 July, Maurice F. X. Donohue, “Manpower Problems—Five Ways”, in Mountain Life & Work, volume 44, number 6, page 11
    Synonyms:
    cherry-pick

Questions about creaming the crop

What is creaming the crop the present participle and gerund of?
Creaming the crop is the present participle and gerund of cream the crop.

Words near creaming the crop in the dictionary

  1. creaming off
  2. creaming one's jeans
  3. creaming one's pants
  4. creaming soda
  5. creaming sodas
  6. creaming the crop
  7. creaming up
  8. creamings
  9. creamish
  10. creamlaid
  11. creamless

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