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Welcome to English at the movies where we teach you American English, heard at the movies.
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Our saying Today is not my cup of tea from the movie Forever, My Girl.
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The film is a romance about a country singer who leaves his girlfriend on their wedding day.
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Instead of becoming a husband, he becomes famous.
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Eight years later, he returns to the town where he grew up.
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There he sees his old girlfriend again and her daughter Listen for the phrase not my cup of tea.
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I e you your that country star.
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Mama, listen, not really my cup of tea.
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No offence taking Billy.
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How old, you and seven.
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So what do you think?
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Not my cup of tea means, is it not something I like very much or not?
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Something I order in a restaurant.
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Listen again.
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Did you have the right answer?
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I e you your that country star, Mama, listen, not really my cup of tea.
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No offence taking Billy how old you do.
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And seven, Not my cup of tea means not something I like very much.
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The expression is common, but also old fashioned.
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Billy's grown up way of talking is just one of the reasons why the country singer likes her.
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Now he has to decide, should he stay with Billy and her mom or go back to being a star, and that's English at the movies.