not her cup of tea

"Daly's Theatre will be opened for the season on Wednesday night with "The Geisha", the Japanese musical comedy which has had such a long run at Daly's Theatre in London.  The first act passes in the Tea House of Ten Thousand Joys, in Japan, outside the present treaty limits. The four principal Geishas, attended by their tea girls, are discovered singing and dancing."
(The New York Times, Sept. 6, 1896.)