A Good Cup Of Coffee?

 Originally posted in 2018 on one of my old blogs.

I’ve often said, “Boy, could I use a good cup of coffee,” but is that expression really accurate? What do I mean when I say that I could use a good cup of coffee? Am I talking about the quality of the coffee, or the cup?
If I have lousy coffee in, for example, a fine china cup, am I having a good cup of bad coffee? If, on the other hand, I have a delicious cup of coffee, the kind of coffee one drinks slowly and savors, in a cup with a chip in it, am I having a lousy cup of good coffee?
Perhaps, instead of “a good cup of coffee,” the expression should be “a cup of good coffee.”
I’m just saying.