peaches and cream

1. idiomaticinformaluncountableA very enjoyable experience, usually used to describe something being unrealistically idyllic.

   When I was little, I thought life was peaches and cream.

   1995, Albert Ramsdell Gurney, John Cheever, A Cheever Evening: A New Play Based on the Stories of John Cheever, page 26

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   Those Incarnations — they've got real jobs to do! It isn't all peaches and cream for them, any more than for us!

   1991, Piers Anthony, And Eternity, page 209

   I'm not trying to make it sound like life as part of a championship-level race team is all peaches and cream. Nothing in life is all peaches and cream.

   2002, Tony Stewart, True Speed: My Racing Life, page 44

   Synonyms: bed of roses, bowl of cherries, sunshine and rainbows, beatitude, bliss, delectation, delight, ecstasy

2. uncountablecookingA simple dessert consisting of sliced peaches and whipped cream, popular in the United States.
3. uncountableUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see peach, cream.

comparative more peaches and cream · superlative most peaches and cream · alternative peaches-and-cream

1. idiomaticinformalOf a facial complexion: smooth, unblemished, with attractive yellow-pink coloring.