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pretty as a picture
Idioms and Phrases
Very attractive, as in She looked pretty as a picture in her new hat . The noun picture alone was used to describe beautiful objects from the early 1800s on; this locution, however, dates from about 1900.Example Sentences
The brown coconut sugar deepens the orange color of the potatoes and what you pull from the oven is as pretty as a picture.
Fresh, simple and delicious, they're equally perfect packed in mason jars for a picnic, or dressed up and presented pretty as a picture in your mother's favorite Easter china for an elegant supper or brunch.
Standing next to a specimen as revolting as DeSantis, Newsom looks pretty as a picture, and he knows it.
Every shot is framed, propped and scripted to be as pretty as a picture.
Oh’s surprising, idiosyncratic performance, as well as that of her Emmy-winning co-star, Jodie Comer — pretty as a picture as the assassin Villanelle, and far more volatile — were two reasons “Killing Eve†surged in popularity after a relatively modest, if critically heralded, debut in 2018.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from 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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