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Sweet as a peach
Meaning
- This describes someone who is genuinely kind, pleasant, or endearing. It is high praise for a person's personality or character.
Affectionate, warm
Used in a sentence
- The new neighbor brought us a casserole and she is just sweet as a peach.
- My grandmother is sweet as a peach, even when she is telling me off.
- You have such a sweet as a peach daughter, she helped me carry my groceries.
The backstory
Peaches are famously soft, sweet, and pleasing fruits. Using them as a comparison for a lovely person has been common in rural agrarian culture for generations.
Heard in
The South
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