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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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