| 单词 | nice as pie |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie a. As the type of something pleasurable, in (as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [phrase] to rightsc1330 all (also everything) is gas and gaiters1839 (as) nice (also good, sweet, etc.) as pie1855 (as) right as rain1891 everything in the garden is lovely (also rosy)1898 she'll be right1947 1855 Which: Right or Left? 184 For nearly a week afterwards, the domestics observed significantly to each other, that Miss Isabella was as ‘nice as pie!’ 1857 ‘Dow, Jr.’ Patent Serm. 1st Ser. 21 Let her alone and in five minutes the storm will be over, and she as good as pie again. 1877 Address in ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (2010) I. 263 Mr. Longfellow smiles as sweet as pie. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn ii. 28 You're always as polite as pie to them. 1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iv. iii. 151 I ran into him upstreet this afternoon and he was meek as pie. 1952 M. Laski Village vi. 109 She was as sweet as pie, said she was awfully sorry. 1995 J. Miller Voxpop iii. 65 Another guy who seemed nice as pie in his letters..turned out to be a paranoid piss-head. < as lemmas |
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