Meaning:
sweetness
'swɪːtnɪsn.
the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth
the property of tasting as if it contains sugar
a pleasingly sweet olfactory property
the quality of giving pleasure
sweetness Idiom, Proverb
all sweetness and light
Idiom(s): all sweetness and light
Theme: INNOCENCE
very sweet, innocent, and helpful. (Perhaps insincerely so. Fixed order.)
• She was mad at first, but after a while, she was all sweetness and light.
• At the reception, the whole family was all sweetness and light, but they argued and fought after the guests left.
sweetness and light
sweetness and light
Ostentatious amiability and friendliness, as in One day she has a temper tantrum, the next day she's all sweetness and light. This phrase was coined by Jonathan Swift in his Battle of the Books (1704), where it referred literally to the products of bees: honey and light from beeswax candles. But in Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869), the term meant “beauty and intelligence.” In the 20th century, however, it was applied to personal qualities of friendliness and courtesy and to the general pleasantness of a situation, as in Working with him isn't all sweetness and light, you know. Today it is generally used ironically, indicating lack of trust in a person's seeming friendliness or for a difficult situation.
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