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单词 cream sth/sb off
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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
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