get the cream

The trick to making ice cream is to get the cream cold enough to freeze without the parts separating.

“I remember listening to it thinking: If this 17-year-old kid can do this, why can’t we get the cream of European composers to put their minds to this task, and see if we can fill in all these tantalizing gaps?”

Their collective goal, the congressman said, was “to get the cream of the crop and shape them into a form that was going to change America.”

“Go get the cream and bandages and let me fix that for you.”

When the doctor’s away the cat will get the cream.