cup of coffee
Noun
Meaning
(ice hockey, baseball, slang) The situation where a minor league player comes up to the major league team for a short period of time.
I was up for a cup of coffee once; those were the best six days of my career.
(figuratively) One’s personal preference.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cup, coffee.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSynonyms
Examples
There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.
It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.
A Mormon told me that they don't drink coffee. I said, "A cup of coffee every day gives you wonderful benefits." He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well, it keeps you from being Mormon ..."
At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.
Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.
A cup of coffee commits one to forty years of friendship.