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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 butter wouldn't melt

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

butter wouldn't cook (in one's mouth)

Said of one who appears 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. Samantha consistently affects this demure, butter-wouldn't-melt announcement on her face whenever she wants article from you.Learn more: butter, melt

butter wouldn't cook in one's mouth

Be ever coy or demure; be insincere. For example, She looked absolutely innocent, as admitting adulate wouldn't cook in her mouth, but we knew bigger . Already a adage in John Heywood's accumulating of 1546, this allegorical announcement alleges that one is actually so air-conditioned that adulate central the aperture would not melt. Learn more: butter, melt, mouth

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look as if butter wouldn't melt イディオム

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