different cup of tea, a—(also: another cup of tea) a different state of affairs; smth. of an altogether different kind:
- London in wartime is a very different cup of tea from Winchester.
not someone’s cup of tea—said of smth. that is not to a person’s taste or does not appeal to one:
- If Yeats isn’t your cup of tea, why not try some of the more contemporary Irish poets?
Note: Neither expression correlates in meaning with the phrase cup of tea, a—(coll.) an individual of the kind mentioned (especially an older woman):
- Miss Prentice seems to be a very unpleasant cup of tea.