| 单词 | butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth |
| 释义 | butter wouldn't melt in one's mouthBe overly coy or demure; be insincere. For example, She looked quite innocent, as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, but we knew better. Already a proverb in John Heywood's collection of 1546, this metaphoric expression alleges that one is literally so cool that butter inside the mouth would not melt. Words nearby butter wouldn't melt in one's mouthbutter tree, butter up, butterweed, butterwort, Butterworth, butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth, buttery, butt-fuck, butt-fucker, butthead, butt hinge The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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