sugar and spice

Definition

If you describe someone, especially a woman or a girl, as being sugar and spice, you mean that they are behaving in a kind and friendly way

She could be all sugar and spice when she wanted to be.

(Definition of sugar and spice from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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