cream of the crop

The best of a group; the top choice.

May Queen candidates were lovely, but Betsy and Nancy were the cream of the crop.

The students had drawn many good pictures and the teacher chose the cream of the crop to hang up when the parents came to visit.

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[crop] See: [CASH CROP], [CREAM OF THE CROP], [STICK IN ONE'S CRAW] or [STICK IN ONE'S CROP]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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