Learn the English Phrases CREAM OF THE CROP and BEST OF THE BEST - An English Lesson with Subtitles

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So today, I wanted to help you learn
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the English phrase cream of the crop.
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Now, cream is something that rises to the top
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when you have milk.
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The cream is like the buttery, fatty part of the milk,
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and it rises to the top.
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Some think it's the best part of the milk,
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and a crop is something like this hayfield behind me
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or the soybean field in the distance.
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The crop is what you harvest when it is ripe.
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The cream of the crop, though,
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is a phrase we use to describe the people
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or things that are the best in a group.
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So when you have a company and you want to hire people,
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you want to hire the cream of the crop.
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You want to hire people who are graduating from school
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with the highest grades,
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so you want to get the best students
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as people who are working for your business.
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You want to hire the cream of the crop.
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So the cream of the crop is the phrase we use to describe
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the best part of a group of people or of a group of things,
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but what if you hire the cream of the crop and then,
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within the cream of the crop,
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you want to find who is the best.
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You would call them the best of the best.
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So you've already hired the cream of the crop.
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You've already got the best people.
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You hired the smartest people.
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Now, within that group of people,
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you want to find out who is the best of the best.
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So the cream of the crop would be the best people
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in a group of people in terms of how well they do
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in school or how well they do at work,
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or it would be the best things in a group of things
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that you would have, and the best of the best would be
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within that cream of the crop,
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who is better than everyone else.
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I'm not sure I'm doing a good job of explaining this.
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It's been a couple weeks.
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I haven't done these videos for a bit.
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So hopefully, you understood that,
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and thank you so much for watching.
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I am going to be putting videos on this channel
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and on this account quite a lot more often.
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It's good to see all of you again.
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Have a great day.
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