look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth Idiom, Proverb

look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth

Idiom(s): look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth

Theme: COLDNESS

to appear to be cold and unfeeling (despite any information to the contrary).
• Sally looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. She can be so cruel.
• What a sour face. He looks as if butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.

look as if adulate wouldn't cook in one's mouth

Idiom(s): look as if adulate wouldn't cook in one's mouth

Theme: COLDNESS

to arise to be algid and anesthetized (despite any advice to the contrary).
• Sally looks as if adulate wouldn't cook in her mouth. She can be so cruel.
• What a acerb face. He looks as if adulate wouldn't cook in his mouth.

look as if adulate wouldn't cook in (one's) mouth

To arise innocent or aloof in assertive company, back in actuality one may accept the adverse demeanor. Sure, he looks as if adulate wouldn't cook in his aperture back he's about bodies he doesn't know, but break a while and you'll see what he's absolutely like.Learn more: butter, if, look, melt, mouth

look as if adulate wouldn't cook in one's mouth

Fig. to arise to be algid and anesthetized (despite any advice to the contrary). Sally looks as if adulate wouldn't cook in her mouth. She can be so cruel. What a acerb face. He looks as if adulate wouldn't cook in his mouth.Learn more: butter, if, look, melt, mouth

look as if adulate wouldn't cook in your mouth

arise deceptively affable or innocent. informalLearn more: butter, if, look, melt, mouth

butter wouldn't cook (in his/her mouth), looks as if

Suspiciously coy or demure, too acceptable to be true. This announcement dates from the aboriginal sixteenth aeon and was already a adage in John Heywood’s 1546 collection. It recurs afresh and afresh (Swift, Dickens, Thackeray, Shaw) and has been a cliché for at atomic a century.Learn more: butter, if, look, melt

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