sweet young thing

noun

An attractive young woman.

“I just know he's off spending the night with some sweet young thing he picked up in a bar.”

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Meanings

nounsweet young thing (plural sweet young things)

plural sweet young things

  1. idiomaticAn attractive young woman.

    I just know he's off spending the night with some sweet young thing he picked up in a bar.

  2. idiomaticA sweet-tempered young woman.

    Isabel's a sweet young thing; but do you think she's so good as that?

    1908, Henry James, chapter XVIII, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 264

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