cream sth/sb off
— phrasal verb with cream uk/kriːm/us/kriːm/verb [ T ]
to remove the best part of something or the best people in a group and use them for your own advantage:
They had a plan to cream off the brightest kids and put them in separate schools.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Taking things away from someone or somewhere
- appropriate
- confiscate
- de-
- debug
- denude
- depersonalize
- drain
- infringe on/upon sth
- knock
- knock sth out of sb
- nab
- off with sth idiom
- relieve
- shelf
- suck
- suck sb/sth dry idiom
- sweep
- take sth out
- tow
- tow-away
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Removing and extracting
Taking and choosing