What Does Hot Coffee Mean In Baseball?

A “cup of coffee” is a North American sports idiom for a short time spent by a minor league player at the major league level The idea behind the term is that the player was only in the big leagues long enough to have a cup of coffee before being returned to the minors. What … Read more

Can I Get A Coffee Or Can I Have A Coffee?

As Tojo said “to get a coffee” is perfectly normal usage in the States, but as my british friends love to point out, in their respective countries, it is more common to ask with “to have.” (In the US, if you said, ‘Can I have a cup of coffee,’ it’s perfectly fine as well). Can … Read more