He only licked the cream off the top.
Thanks to a housing bubble, your joint investment has paid off and you would now like to cream off some additional upside.
The children have just licked the cream off and left the jelly.
Unlike most baseball-playing countries, Cuba has no professional league to cream off its top talent, and hostile relations with Washington keep its elite from migrating to the U. S. major leagues.
When you skim milk you take the thin layer of cream off the surface.
Many special schools cream off the highest achievers.