Can I use "cup of tea" in formal writing?
I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know whether the following usage of "someone's cup of tea" idiomatic expression is acceptable or not in formal writing.
However, everyone cannot follow computer and engineering courses as it required significant mathematical and scientific knowledge which is not everyone's cup of tea.
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dileepa I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know whether the following usage of "someone's cup of tea" idiomatic expression is acceptable or not in formal writing. You might get away with it, but I would change it. dileepa However, everyone cannot follow computer and engineering courses as it required significant mathematical and scientific knowledge which is not everyone's cup of tea.
- dileepa I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know whether the following usage of "someone's cup of tea" idiomatic expression is acceptable or not in formal writing.
- You might get away with it, but I would change it.
- dileepa However, everyone cannot follow computer and engineering courses as it required significant mathematical and scientific knowledge which is not everyone's cup of tea.
- You have a universal quantifier in the subject position with a negation of the verb.
- This usually creates problems.
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dileepaI would really appreciate it if someone could let me know whether the following usage of "someone's cup of tea" idiomatic expression is acceptable or not in formal writing.
You might get away with it, but I would change it.
dileepaHowever, everyone cannot follow computer and engineering courses as it required signif
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