butter wouldn't melt in sb's mouth
Definition
› used when someone looks as if they would never do anything wrong, although you feel they might: Tommy looked as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.Naive and trustingInexperienced (of people)
(Definition of butter wouldn't melt in sb's mouth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- an easy touch idiom
- be easy game/meat idiom
- be easy prey idiom
- be wet behind the ears idiom
- callow adjective
- dewy-eyed adjective
- impressionable adjective
- ingenuous adjective
- jejune adjective
- look at/see sth through rose-coloured/tinted glasses idiom
- naivety noun
- pushover noun
- see things in black and white idiom
- simple adjective (FOOLISH)
- soft touch noun
- sucker noun (FOOLISH PERSON)
- trusting adjective
- unsophisticated adjective
- unsuspecting adjective
- wide-eyed adjective
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