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Meaning: (idiomatic)Topick outthe mostvaluableordesirablethings or people from agroupfor one's owninterests.Synonym:cherry-pickHypernyms:separate the wheat from the chaff,sort the chaff from the grain1968July, Maurice F. X. Donohue, “Manpower Problems—Five Ways”, inMountain Life & Work, volume44, number 6,page11:In the past, most agencies assumed that theotheragencies 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.2002July 11, William L. Hamilton, “Seizing The Throne Of Good Taste”, inThe New York Times[1]:Taking new designs and young designers upmarket can take them out of context, though, killing idealistic ambitions with adult realities and removing them from the wider audience that might stand to profit from the value of their solutions. Mr. Pucci risks criticism that he could becreaming the crop.2011, Mark R. Warren, Karen L. Mapp, The Community Organizing and School Reform Project, ““A Match on Dry Grass”: Organizing for Great Schools in San Jose”, inA Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform, New York, NY:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page52:Principals of nearby schools felt they had students “taken” from them, other teachers thought small schools were being given special treatment and more money, and some thought the small schools were “creaming the crop”—taking the best students from other schools.
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